Since leaving Herman Dune in 2006, French anti-folker Andre has performed as Ben Dope, Klaus Bong and Lord Stanislas, but tonight, he was the brilliant Stanley Brinks.
Wearing dark glasses and a Hawaiian shirt, he was in the mood for calypso war songs and invited support acts The Purple Organ and Freschard back on stage to help him explore his collection of musical curiosities.
The scruffy, dread-headed Purple Organ has the type of insanely rich, smooth voice you'd expect to hear deep in the diaphram of a soul singer, while cute French songstress Freschard added an off-beat delicacy. They were an unlikey-looking bunch and amusingly rough around the edges but like any dysfunctional unit, they were strangely intriguing to watch.
The Organ sang the wrong lyrics, Freschard giggled and Andre was his usual whimsical self, strumming the guitar and singing about everything from monkeys and King Edward to skeletons and love.
Charming, surprising and often gloriously silly, Stanley Brinks is a master storyteller with sweet music in his abstract soul.
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