Ryan's Gig Guide - January 2019

Like the first album they released this year, the more contemplative BrushesWith Happiness, this one was recorded late at night whilst ine- briated back at the tiny Booze Cube Studio in Stoke Newington, live to reel-to-reel tape with no computers of any kind. The album is pep- pered with giggles and chatter, which adds a sense of spontaneity and place. As singer and guitarist DaveTattersall explains: ”Look InsideYour Heart is intended as a rally- ing cry in the war against the machines; while a computer may have beaten world-champion human being Lee Sedol at Go, a machine could never have made music as joyful, spontaneous, happy, poetic, broken and rambunctious as this. Look Inside Your Heart is a bullet in the face of all pop-poseurs and robot wannabes, a die- hard continuation of the vulnerable rebel tra- dition of rock and roll music, a vibrant work of outsider art and a masterpiece of electric folk.” Twenty years after forming inWymeswold, Le- icestershire as teenagers, The Wave Pictures have gone on to be one of the UK’s most pro- lific and beloved bands. Fond of classic rock, jazz and blues, they are also one of the most accomplished, with Tattersall’s guitar solos be- coming the stuff of legend.They have collabo- rated with varying bright stars of the musical firmament, such as last year’s rock’n’roll surf- garage-rock project with CharlesWatson from Slow Club, as new bandThe Surfing Magazines, or their ongoing partnership with ex-Herman Dune member Stanley Brinks, or the very close partnership with Billy Childish for 2015’s Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon. They first experimented with recording an album all in one go, straight to tape with 2016’s acoustic A Season In Hull.They took the con- cept further with Brushes With Happiness, making sure that it was a magical album that  Wednesday 30th January Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath The Wave Pictures have returned with the promised second album of the year, Look Inside Your Heart - a warm, joy- ous record celebrating friendship, happiness and drunken party times. 20 rgg Jan 2019 www.ryansgigguide.com