Lee Griffiths

On Tuesday night in Sackville Street’s Reto Bar I played a mini acoustic set to break up the night…not that there was fighting or anything, it was Lee’s new album [Armchair Anachy] launch do. Our shared connection is tonight’s promoter by proxy Tom Robinson who mailed me the last minute gig request. I am most happy to oblige. Lee [and Tom] gigged with us a few years ago in Liverpool on the night George Harrison died. At the gig I catch most of Lee’s opening set which is acoustic and spontaneous, he’s all heart, he goes down a storm and rightly so. The place is rammed to rafters with people who care about music; the crowd have a reality factor that transcends artiness or posturing. There is no air of pretension, no snobbery. It’s refreshing. My set is received well give or take the odd talking bar fly. I dedicate Revolt into Style to George Melley and pay my respects to his recent sad passing. I must read the book again at some point. I so admire George Melly and his life lived to the topper most in every sense. I feel pale in his significance. Rum Bum and Concertina is his auto biography. Get hold of a copy if you can. VP x