grum_g
About grum_g
grum_g is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist & producer who crafts layered observational vignettes on what it is to be human & how we cope & manage our way through the existential current. grum showed his talent with a set that portrayed him as an excellent writer and performer. Playing guitar with mellifluous dexterity keeping bass notes throbbing through some jangled melodies, he is a troubadour in the Nick Cave fashion, at least this is one thought, much of the conversation after his set was regarding who exactly he reminded one of, with Momus, Tom Waits, Robyn Hitchcock and Richard Hawley also mentioned. In fact his baritone voice and dark, strange lyrics bring to mind the above. He gave us a grand sea shanty played with Brechtian gusto, a drink fuelled apparition of the Virgin Mary in his song Anthracite, & an excellently absurdist tale about doctors and pills, this song being the one which led to the Hitchcock comparisons. A very talented guy. Paul Kerr "Blabber & Smoke" review.
grum_g is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist & producer who crafts layered observational vignettes on what it is to be human & how we cope & manage our way through the existential current. grum showed his talent with a set that portrayed him as an excellent writer and performer. Playing guitar with mellifluous dexterity keeping bass notes throbbing through some jangled melodies, he is a troubadour in the Nick Cave fashion, at least this is one thought, much of the conversation after his set was regarding who exactly he reminded one of, with Momus, Tom Waits, Robyn Hitchcock and Richard Hawley also mentioned. In fact his baritone voice and dark, strange lyrics bring to mind the above. He gave us a grand sea shanty played with Brechtian gusto, a drink fuelled apparition of the Virgin Mary in his song Anthracite, & an excellently absurdist tale about doctors and pills, this song being the one which led to the Hitchcock comparisons. A very talented guy. Paul Kerr "Blabber & Smoke" review.