Gideon Conn

So its late at night, Elliot and I are surfing the music channels on Sky Digital and nothing is really sticking, ten seconds of every channel so far and we're reaching the end of all different, and mostly terrible stations and we come across MusFlashTv (channel number 375) and there's this guy sat at keyboard, who looks to be idly murmuring along to his own sounds. Looking somewhere between a chav/scally(mainly in his baseball cap) and any other kid at the moment.

At first we're laughing at the low-fi noise he's creating, feeling slightly confused at how this has made the TV.

Then the music breaks for a mini interview, in which the host of the show (and i'm only guessing at this cos we tuned in towards the end of the show) seems to be really struggling with Gideon. An example of which would be;

'So where can we find more out about you' (She's obviously trying to get a website out of Gideon)
'Prestwich' is his reply. Its not contrived, or thought out whatsoever. Elliot and I howl with laughter before Gideon realises his mistake and reels out his myspace address. Just as we stop laughing the programme cuts back to more music.

This time we're transfixed with his music, and i'm drawing comparisons with my previous blog entry about Kate Nash, thinking that there's also an elegant naivety to this music. By the end of his set we're hitting up the myspace to listen to more. A complete u-turn by the pair of us in three songs. There's not many artists or musicians that can achieve that kind of reaction in me and i'm genuinely impressed by his very personal take on music. I don't think his music would be for everyone, in much the same way that Antony And The Johnsons wouldn't be right for everyone but I'd definately say you should give Gideon a chance, I'm glad we did.

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