{"id":803,"date":"2011-02-09T15:54:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T15:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/?p=803"},"modified":"2011-02-11T16:03:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:03:40","slug":"teddy-thompson-rescue-rooms-february-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/teddy-thompson-rescue-rooms-february-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Thompson at The Rescue Rooms, February 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Teddy Thompson is single, and the songs on his new album \u2018Bella\u2019, released on Monday, let us know it. On each of his three visits to The Rescue Rooms the admiring throng of female followers has grown thicker. Hardly surprising, given his film star looks and rich, memorable singing voice.<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll be interesting to see if \u2018Bella\u2019 emulates his last album, \u2018A Piece Of What You Need\u2019 by entering the album charts in the top ten. Reviews have been mixed. Unfairly, for it\u2019s as good an album of country tinged pop-rock as you can hope to hear. It gets a good airing tonight, as does the last album and his second, \u2018Separate Ways\u2019, the title track of which takes on the air of a classic. His band keeps getting better. New addition Jessie Nelson duets with Teddy and plays fine violin. The other band members are Ethan Eubanks (drums), Jeff Hill (bass) and Daniel Mintseris (guitar).<\/p>\n

In songs like \u2018Separate Ways\u2019, \u2018I Wish It Was Over\u2019 and the new Radio Two playlisted single \u2018Looking For A Girl\u2019, Thompson demonstrates that he\u2019s inherited his dad\u2019s gift for wry, self mocking cynicism. During the three song acoustic set, he introduces \u2018Turning The Gun On Myself, \u2018since I was in Nottingham I thought I\u2019d play a song about suicide because\u2026 well, you live here.\u2019 Charming, you might say. He then gets the crowd to perform the whistle solo, claiming that he can\u2019t whistle himself. Whistling in the dark has rarely sounded so indisciplined.<\/p>\n

There are plenty of lighter moments in the 90 minute set. A song he regrets leaving off the new album, \u2018What Will I Do\u2019, is an unexpected treat. The main set concludes with the sentimental, \u2018Take Care Of Yourself\u2019. The highlight of the four song encore is Teddy accompanied by his acoustic guitar while his excellent four piece band give us high spirited, acapella backing vocals. The song? A terrific rendition of Abba\u2019s \u2018Supertrouper\u2019.<\/p>\n

That was the unabridged version of my review for the Nottingham Post. Here’s that suicide song.<\/p>\n

Teddy Thompson – Turning The Gun On Myself<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teddy Thompson is single, and the songs on his new album \u2018Bella\u2019, released on Monday, let us know it. On each of his three visits to The Rescue Rooms the admiring throng of female followers has grown thicker. Hardly surprising, given his film star looks and rich, memorable singing voice. It\u2019ll be interesting to see if \u2018Bella\u2019 emulates his last album, \u2018A Piece Of What You Need\u2019 by entering the album charts in the top ten. Reviews have been mixed. Unfairly, for it\u2019s as good an album of country tinged pop-rock as you can hope to hear. It gets a good airing tonight, as does the last album and his second, \u2018Separate Ways\u2019, the title track of which takes on the air of a classic.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}