Harbottle and Jonas - 5/4/2019

A complete contrast from the day before - from noisy, feisty Southern Rock/Blues in a packed standing city venue with a sticky floor to a gentle folk gig in a local village hall. They are based in Devon and many of the songs featured the sea and their recent album is 'The Sea is My Brother'. Freya Jonas had a distinctive folky voice and also played both an accordion with her hands and a harmonium with her right leg mostly. Dave Harbottle played guitar and sang as well. Both had a friendly audience engagement style with bits of chat and explanation between songs. I very much liked their opening song - 'Was it You?' about Scott in the Antarctic and also rated the title track of the aforementioned album. The other highlight that comes to mind was a cover of 'Black is the Colour' which suited Freya's voice perfectly. In fact the whole gig was great from start to finish. The encore was a rousing version of 'The leaving of Liverpool' which went down well all round.