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November 2007
gig reviews

The Necks
Porpoise Corpus
The Chris Lowe Quintet
Evan Parker, Barry Guy
 Paul Lytton, Peter Evans
Ian Shaw
Radioplay
Fraud
Hih
Zoe Rahman Trio
Robert Mitchell
 and Corey Mwamba
Billy Jenkins and
 Steve Morrison

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November gig reviews by Chris Parker

Ian Shaw

Saturday 17 November

Ian Shaw began his set swith a couple of Joni Mitchell songs, the rousing 'Raised on Robbery' and the ineffably affecting 'Case of You', accompanying himself at the piano; he then confessed that he himself would never think of buying an album of the great songwriter's material performed by someone other than Mitchell, but that his Linn album Drawn to All Things, on which he performs Mitchell songs and nothing else, had been his best-selling disc to date.

This sort of frank, confiding intimacy is what Vortex audiences expect from Shaw, and his performance on this occasion – on which he was joined by singer/songwriter Judith Owen – was made even more informal courtesy of the presence of a hen party from High Wycombe, which drew a number of characteristically waspish comments from Shaw, 'Richmond shut, was it?' chief among them.

Despite indulging in such badinage, though, Shaw never takes his eye off the ball: his versions of 'Get Out of Town', his own 'Pamela' and a sparky but touching original about the delights of living in Paris were flawlessly delivered and delighted a packed club.

 

 

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