Nathaniel Green / The Rosie Taylor Project

Having only been together for less than a year, the well received The Rosie Taylor Project bring some Americana/pop/alt-country to Wakefield. Shame the people here are not that interested in hearing them play. Pretty vocals are hushed out from singers Jonny Davies and Sophie Barnes, and the addition of Barnes trumpet creeping in on some songs gives them a timely feel.

They could be Leeds version of Belle And Sebastian, but the show is hardly riveting. The band seem more suited to playing a seated venue with candles glowing on tables, rather than a bar open until 4am. I can not figure out the importance of Sam Cottis, who though listed as a guitar player spends a lot of the show looking into space surrounded by instruments, which he is not playing.



I think they have some beautiful songs and I like the gentle brass sound and melodic vocals; it’s just the choice of venue needs to be studied more in future.

Nathaniel Green; local acoustic heroes. Both members come from established Wakefield bands (Pylon, Dugong, Calcutecs), not to make them sound old but back in the day when The Cribs were still at school and playing dives in Bristol for peanuts under a different name.



Jamie from Mi Mye lends a helping hand with his violin on penultimate track and new single ‘Old Folks/Young Folks’. (Mi Mye played first on the bill but I missed their heavily distorted folk pop). The track is upbeat, like a summer track for youngsters, and the violin fills are great. Single B-side ‘All You Know’ is also on the set list.

The two gents have got their art down to a ‘t’ now, with Matt Broadbent on acoustic guitar providing the main vocals, and Rob Taylor delivering great harmonies and gorgeous sounding layerings from a Fender Rhodes piano. They have a laugh between songs, asking if anyone can sell them some insurance and trying to use a painfully slow guitar tuner.



The best of the set was for me ‘That's Where They Buried The Giant’ from 'Same time tomorrow', the full length album, along with ‘Abba Medley’. Finishing, with a push from the large crowd, on ‘Down To You Then, Supergirl’ the set is a complete success, and with more on the way from these (a tour with post-hardcore lads Spy Versus Spy kicks off this week) I look forward to Nathaniel Green becoming more popular than the art teacher/astronomer of the same name.

All Fall Down
All You Know
Yorkshire Heights
Mort A La Bête
That's Where They Buried The Giant
Handwriting
Abba Medley
Old Folks/Young Folks

Down To You Then, Supergirl

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