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Artist
Brian Binmore
12+ albums
singer-songwriterfolkbritishAllAuthentic-Wooden
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For those out there who remain unfamiliar with Brian’s work, let me take you back to the UK in 1977. It was the year of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee of course, and in the midst of all the celebrations, while The Sex Pistols sang “God Save The Queen”, new punk rock misfits, Spaz Modic and the Straitjackets introduced Brian to the world in the guise of Spaz himself. He was singing “I’m Gonna Open Up a Bank Account” on their first cassette tape “Grimsby Town”. Soon afterwards the pseudonym was dropped and Brian went on to record “Straitjacket Style” in 1978 as purely and simply The Straitjackets. There was nothing simple about the music though, and such a total harmonic and rhythmic inability would have been very hard to feign, but the message, of course, was everything: “I’m a communist, ‘cos me hair’s red, and I’m an anarchist, ‘cos I’m outta me head” The albums “Nausea” and “Presumptious Songsheet” quickly followed and with the latter, a change of emphasis. It was the inclusion of such songs as “The Sellanby Rag” which finally confirmed the improvement in Brian’s guitar style and he had soon earned himself the nickname of Brian Lemon Jefferson as a tribute to his ragtime/blues leanings and the general shape of his head. The songs were a little more self-assured as well and showed a growing maturity his parents had always claimed was beyond him. They may also have been surprised to detect how, by 1983, he was even gung-ho enough to attempt singing in the same key as he was p
