Jose Gonzalez

Yesterday, Al & I headed off to Newmarket, New Hampshire to see Jose Gonzalez. He's only our favourite singer songwriter ever (well since 2006)! What he was doing playing in Newmarket, New Hampshire who knows - but he was, and we had tickets. If this was Sweden (where he's from, or the UK we may not have been so lucky, lucky, lucky - more of Kylie later in the post).

The venue (an old converted church) was very small and intimate - a bit like a concert in your living room. In fact we could have bought out the scrabble board while he was playing (please refer to a previous post for that reference). Actually it was better than a living room since it had a bar on one side. Probably held about 50 people with the same quality of music tastes!! We were near the front - on little folding chairs. The support band were fantastic too - the name escapes me - lots of spanish guitars and vocal harmonies.

Then Jose, came on and played most of the songs from his two albums, plus ending with a cover of Kylie Minogue's 'Hand on Your Heart' which was probably missed on the crowd since Kylie isn't a big deal over here (or Jason Donovan for that matter). Great cover, as was Massive Attack's 'Teardrop.' He played all our favourite songs bar 'Save Your Day' but it wasn't a huge disappointment since he was fantastic throughout. We await that third album, Jose - if it could be remixed by Zero 7 or Four Tet in some manner then you've got our $10+ guaranteed!