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Jim Noir

Ross by Ross Bennett [Edit this content] ▾ 3 comments 11:58 April 25th, 2006
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Date: 21/04/2006

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Date: April 2006

Name: Jim Noir

Current status: Gentle, foppish purveyor of psychedelic nursery-rhyme pop.

Date: June 2006

Name: Jim Noir

Current status: Oh you know...the one what does that plinky-plonky song off the Adidas advert.

Times are about to change for Manc songsmith Jim Noir. His song ‘Eanie Meany’ - with it’s rather sweet refrain of “If you don’t give my football back I’m gonna get my dad on you” - has been chosen to soundtrack Adidas’ upcoming global World Cup Ad campaign. It’s pulverising ubiquity over the summer months is therefore likely to hurt minds and souls across the country - it may even make another listen to that awful Christmas song about a digger seem like a damn fine idea. However tonight, 'Eanie Meany'’s breezy choruses - it's actually a really good song - are a welcome start to a set that, for the most part, completely washes over this Friday night crowd. The quaint ‘Quiet Man’ – a serene song on record – flies by almost entirely unnoticed, whilst ‘Computer Song’ - which Jim helpfully informs us “is about my computer” - forces the bar staff into overdrive. Not all is lost though; the bumbling beats and heavenly harmonies of ‘Key Of C’ rightly get eyes facing front and fun new single ‘My Patch’, with its ukulele riffing and Mod-ish groove, has the whole room singing and clapping like wallies.

Delays, on the other hand, have no such trouble in grabbing the crowd’s attention. The first ‘whoo-oo whoo-oo’ of ‘Long Time Coming’ alone is enough to make many a pant wet. Couple this with a blissful ‘Nearer Than Heaven’ and a rowdy ‘Lost In A Melody’ and you have Delays at their very best – soaring falsetto, strong, catchy melodies and pulsing off-beat rhythms. It’s a shame then that even with Greg Gilbert singing his blonde balls off, it all gets tired very quickly. A slew of new songs from their very middling sophomore LP ‘You See Colours’ rise and roll along with the same synth/guitar infusions that made ‘Faded Seaside Glamour’ such a joy, yet their set swiftly folds into some indiscernible mush of indie-dance nothingness. I mean come on, this evening’s being organised by an internet provider - you can’t get much more exciting than that can you?! Give it some welly!

  • Delays 5 / 10
  • Jim Noir 6 / 10
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yep,

i think that may well be the dullest promo photograph i've ever seen.

carrotrope | 25 Apr '06, 14:01 | X | Reply

Ten-A-Penny Journalist Sat At The Bar . . .

Singles' Night: Crowd well game, band well sweet. Far too short. I was THERE with rest of the kneeling congregation.

'Colours' = Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament = Trip.

Make the night an 8/10. Fuck about; )

Jimmy was a Top Cat too.

derry79 | 3 May '06, 16:16 | X | Reply

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