To Leytonstone’s legendary What’s Cookin’ club at the North Star pub for the launch of Southern Tenant Folk Union’s new album. Unfortunately we missed the support acts Deer Park, Ghost Town Showdown and Paul Handyside as we were on our way back from a visit to the RSPB nature reserve at Fowlmere near Cambridge (a lovely, peaceful place if you enjoy that sort of thing).
The STFU are an Edinburgh based septet with a wide range of musical styles and influences. With mandolin, double bass, harmonica, banjo, fiddle and guitars the celtic influenced folk and bluegrass songs went down a storm with the appreciative audience, especially impressive were ‘The Rights and Interests of the Laboring Man’ and ‘The Tide’. With time running out What’s Cookin’ main man Ramblin’ Steve led the band and audience outside for an encore that was performed on one of the picnic benches at the front of the pub.
On first play the album, titled Pencaitland, sounds pretty damn good as well.
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