Mr. Rosewater

Mr. Rosewater - Dreaming Alone (mp3)

I shared a stage with this pair of men folk a few weeks ago and quite enjoyed their schtick. Essentially, the majestically bearded Ross McNaughton plays his Nick Cave-come-Jeff Magnum sea shanties whilst guitarist Ben Campbell lets fly with all manner of winged apes of distortion and noise from a delicious sounding array of Fender gear. Being their live debut it would be unfair to criticise them for still being a little embryonic; you can see what they're going for and it looks cool from afar. But while the idea of weird noise over straight forwardly appealing songwriting is quite cool, they've yet to quite push past the appeal of the initial premise and make something great out of it.

But as I said early days, this tune of theirs is pretty nice though.

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