Let's Hear It For The Foy
- 21 Feb 07, 06:34 PM
And so Foy Vance plays the Meter Room in the old Gas Works complex in Belfast. Many people at this Tuesday night reception are a little refreshed, and aren΅―t paying full attention. But if you care to check it out, you will hear excellent singing, guitar skill, humour, intensity and grace. In a few years, people who weren΅―t even here will pretend that they listened all the way through.
Foy comes from Bangor, with a broad detour through America with his preacher dad. His music is high on hope, notably on the future classic, ΅®Indiscriminate Act Of Kindness΅― which pictures beautiful deeds in surprising places. He plays in a kind of soul-jazz vernacular and you guess that he΅―s into John Martyn. A bonus.
He lightens the tone with an abstract version of ΅®Another Brick In The Wall΅― and a romp though ΅®I Wanna Be Like You΅―, with Linley Hamilton on trumpet, blowing some happy boogaloo.
At the very end of his set, the music and the voices are looped and layered on some digital device, chiming and recurring even when the author has left the stage and stepped out into the night air. Hours later and those notes are still in our head, sweetly rebounding.
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