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Michael
as one of the contributers to the tabs (in a small way) I would encourage you to use them as the basis of your own interpretations of the songs. Unless you have hands as big as Jake’s you are unlikely to be able to replicate exactly what he did anyway! Most of us who play the songs play them slightly differently either becasue we transpose them to a key which fits our voice or because we hit upon a way of playing them that we happen to like and stick with it.
Look forward to seeing you give them a crack at a Jakefest one of these days
bests
Ian
And I’ll second the reference for Spotify, it’s a great resource and legal too.
At present, though, note that the free version is not available outside of Europe
cheers
Ian
Another YouTube cover of a song not on the CDs – The Cenotaph from the 2006 Jakefest. Don’t know how anyone could sing that without breaking up.
That’s mainly because I was desperately trying not to cock it up! A great piece of playing from Hugh on bass.
Ian
Anyone attending the Jake Thackray Experience gig at Holmfirth Festival in May can expect to hear all of the Isobel/Isabell/Isabella songs
Ian
Information on Alan is hard to come by. When we produced the "Live in Germany" cd I couldn’t find even details to which to send any of the (minimal) proceeds.
Ian
Hi Marlowe
The songs section of this site has the lyrics to all of the songs of which we are aware (or will have once "Bermhouse" is added). There have been indications of other songs which are not recorded – the documentary had a tantalising opening of "The Municipal Workers’ Song" and the late Ian Watson said that Jake sang a couple of others to him on a car journey once including, I think, "The Appalling Mr Kinnell".
I would not be at all surprised if more turn up but they are likely to be in notebook form or on old cassettes in attics if anywhere.
As for the "song a week" thing – yes, that should mean more material but if it exists in the BBC archive we haven’t found it. Of course it may have been indexed under something else but it could just be that the tape has been destroyed.
The Bull and The Remembrance do exist in the BBC archive – it was used in the documentary – but last time we tried to get material out of there for distribution the fees were way too high.
Another which exists in two slightly different versions in the TV and the Radio archive is "Cenotaph"
As regards the comparisons with Brel, the better comparison is with Georges Brassens to whom you should listen immediately, if not sooner!
best wishes
Ian
Malcy and I have a particular affinity with that song having performed it several times as a duet.
And yes, it is a wonderful song.
Ian
Hmm, Malcy’s notion of Guerilla jakeing has a certain appeal. Long ago we had the idea of Extreme Jakeing but that came to naught.
Hi Don, welcome along. There are a number of us here who are quite happy to play Jake’s songs anywhere that’ll let us – indeed if you let us know where your local is we may well turn up one night and join you.
You don’t need to seek consent. Assuming that you are in the UK your hostelry ought to have a PRS licence and possibly something from the council, but that’s their lookout not yours.
Jake’s songs need to be sung and kept alive. Kudos to you for doing so
cheers
Ian
Some of these are known.
"I’m just a dog" is on the Boxed set and the words are on this site (I also passed the chords to Malcy but I’m not sure if he’s posted them yet)
Municipal Workers Song was performed on Nationwide and the first line appears on the BBC4 documentary. The rest of it may still be in the BBC archives but is not indexed as such
Tortoise also appears on this site and was on the original JTProject cd.
I’m Just a Dog is a song I’ve performed twice at Jakefests and Tortoise is almost always on the setlist from someone at the same events
The rest are, apparently, lost along with several others including "The Appalling Mr Kinnel" which is noted on a list of songs and which the late Ian Watson said Jake sang to him once on a car journey
cheers
Ian
Hi Blackbird: welcome along. If you keep your eye on the site you’ll see that some of us try to keep the spirit alive by organising evenings performing Jake’s songs and I look forward to meeting you at one sometime.
cheers
Ian
Yes, Tim was involved in the discussions. The underlying issue was the price which the BBC wanted for use of audio-visual material.
Thanks for the continuing interest. The BBC trail has gone cold for now but we are looking at other material which has come to light in the intervening months…..
Ian
