Blinded By The Light

This month’s rock’n’roll salvage: acoustic-electric Midlands folk blues, painfully exposed.

Jim Wirth

Sunhouse Crazy On The Weekend INDEPENDIENTE, 1998 DISINTEGRATING UNDER the pressure of performing in his own home in Shane Meadows’ troubling 2007 biopic The Living Room, Gavin Clark apologises to the tiny invited audience – including his wife and three of his five children. Trembling and so nervous that he cannot feel his hands, he jokes awkwardly: “I fried my head on drugs when I was younger and it’s turned me into Shakin’ Stevens.”An unguarded writer with a voice like a charity shop trumpet, Clark made ripples after songs documenting his chemical mis-adventures sound tracked Meadows’ break through films, Small Time (1996) and Twenty Four Seven (1997). His luminous debut with Sunhouse – a trio formed with guitarist Paul Bacon and bassist Rob Brooks – had him cast as a…

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MOJO (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2025

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