Having reviewed tracks by former Quads members Josh and Terry (Johnny) Jones, I’m completing the siblings set by drawing your attention to lead guitarist COLIN (Jack) JONES who has several numbers up on YouTube (www.youtube.com/@colinjones9700). As If (You Can) is a midtempo West Coastish ballad with a lilting melody, I Think I’ve Learnt My Lesson a more driving rock number with his distinctive chiming guitar making its presence felt while the climate change themed Scared! is a moodier slow chug with samples from two Greta Thumberg speeches. The Quads have become something of a cult, but the three brothers deserve to be also feted for their current music too.
Celebrating the first anniversary of his The Promise Of Spring breakthrough album, GEORGE BOOMSMA has now released The Promise Of Spring Live recorded at two shows at the Green Note and The Regal Theatre in Tenbury Wells backed by Will Looms and electric guitar, bassist Bart Debney Davies and drummer Ally McDougal to bring a much fuller (listen to the percussive textures of Open Curtain) and at times, as on Johnny Walker Guy, rocking out sound. As well as all the songs from the album (How High The Mountain having been revisited from his self-titled 2016 album) save for Fallen, there’s also live recordings of two others, the ironic Streets Paved With Gold from 2017’s sophomore Do Something With The Night and the twangy chugging autobiographical My 60s Weekend, a brand new number that lays the ground for where the next album’s direction might lie. His musical development over the albums comparable to that of Chris Cleverley, his standing should follow a similar path.
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