Jake Thackray, 1938 - 2002

Having said that, I like unorchestrated Jake a sight more than I do unorchestrated Drake. Also I am now gonna see how many Youtube clips I can find.

This song is offensive.

Best lyric ever written by a human being, that.

I'm just waiting for the nearly 30,000 complaints to start flooding in...

"And I honour them every bit as much as the next/Misogynist" on its own is worth more than most people's careers.

It's brilliant!

I (for once) was right along with Danny Baker's appreciation and his mentions of Drake, etc. I was exposed to Thack's stuff early on via the TV, as I was learning the Classical Guitar at the time.

I was going to revive a thackray thread, but couldn't find it, guess I wasn't spelling it right or something.

Oh, and I did see Vic Lewis-smith's name on the credits. So, I figure, forgive him his past sins for this prog alone...

Victor Lewis-Smith gets a permanent free pass from me for "Gay Daleks" alone.

My Dad was a fan too, and he and I went to see him, at Barrow-in-Furness Civic Hall of all places, when I was about 14. He bought his 'Live Performance' album after that, so when the expanded CD was released a few years ago, I bought it for him, and immediately borrowed it back to stick in iTunes.

As I recall, he was quite popular back in the day thru' his appearances on those Rantzen programmes.

I think it's fair to say he divided opinion! They just go ahead show some of the programmes he made and be done with it - if they still exist, they were made for the BBC after all. Watching this again, I found myself thinking... clothes... accent... physical appearance... general demeanour... Gareth!

yeah me too

Oh man, can't believe I missed this. Love the Thackray!

I just shelled out for the downloads of Jake in a Box and it was worth every penny x 1 million.

It's kinda like the Ted Hughes Collected Poems set in my head.

Who would the present day equivalent of JT be? Other than Momus that is.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8r2vp_lahdidah-1971_music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geDSL19TXDI

Absolutely brilliant performance this one.

Epiphany time!

http://devonrecordclub.com/2014/11/20/jake-thackray-the-very-best-of-jake-thackray-round-75-toms-selection/

That's reminded me to get the DVD that came out earlier this year. It's wonderful that he's starting to more attention from younger listeners, although he's still a long way from being fully recognised as the English Brel, which is what he really deserves.

A new biography of Jake Thackray is coming out and there's a Guardian article about him today.

Most excited I've been about a biography in quite some time tbh