Jack Hayter broke onto the musical map in
the mighty Spongefinger
("Dennis Hopper's house
band" - Organ) before rocking the world in Hefner ('Britain's
Largest Small Band') and releasing his first solo album in 2002,
"Practical Wireless".
In 2011 though, ‘Jack Is Back!' we shall say
as he returns with a four track EP for Audio Antihero. His folk tinged
dissonant woe lurking very nicely in the catalogue of your favourite
Specialists in Commercial Suicide.
“Sucky Tart” (a crafty anagram of the EP's opener) owes little to
Hefner or even “Practical Wireless”. This is the sound of a unique
songwriter given time and freedom to blur the lines between the trad.
folk of his influences and the London anxieties of his past with dirty
fuzz, biting wit and of course, ‘the universal language of a drunkard'.
“I bet she'd sleep with a man who's got a tall ship!” he cackles on ‘I
Stole The Cutty Sark' but whimpers “You've got the last face that I
want to see and his are the last hands I want laid upon me” on ‘A
Simple Song' – Hayter approaches familiar pains through both everyday
happenings and wild eyed pirate fantasies. Whether you got lovesick to
the point of scurvy, trapped in a doll's house or simply let your love
fall where it shouldn't - Jack was watching.
Order "Sucky Tart":
Further awesome:
Jack Hayter Bandcamp
www.jackhayter.com
JackHayter1 @ Twitter
Hefnet.net
Interview with This Is Fake DIY
Interview with The Music Fix
Interview with Pennyblackmusic
Interview with Bubblegunked
Track By Track feature with The Whiteboard Project
Track By Track feature with God Is In The TV
