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Published: 19 March 2009

Rod Thomas

It’s like a guitar, only smaller

REVIEW - Rod Thomas
Hoxton Bar and Grill

IF someone said: “Do you want to go see a busker – he’s got a ukulele by the way” – you might just run a mile.
And you might be right. But then you go to see Rod Thomas and you realise that prejudice is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Rod’s songs are poppy, folksy, and as friendly on the ear as they come, but still stand out from the new wave of British indie pop.
They’re full of desire and seizing the beautiful moments when the sunshine finally breaks through the clouds.
And his voice has steel. This may well be because he’s London’s favourite busker, as all his press claims. Onstage, it breathes life into songs like Blueprint and Same Old Lines (surely the only break-
up song to ever have a music video like a Playschool set).
OK, so he’s not for people who hate gossamer-thin pop, glockenspiels or want to kill Noah and the Whale with a shovel (or the girl I was with). But otherwise this sounds rather like the first shoots of spring.

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