Bird Street is an LA-based singer songwriter. He came to the 9 armed with an acoustic and a hat. Caught the last couple tunes of his set. Assured vocals with decent picking and song structure. Final song had him straddling the precipice between singing and yelling, which I find fascinating.
Leeds is Royston Langdon, a musician from Leeds but based in NYC. He sang and played bass for the 90s-ish band Spacehog. His British accent and banter had me thinking of Bowie or Robyn Hitchcock. Langdon had to be pushing 50, and he told the crowd not to clap for him. This aw shucks style gave the air of a has-been trying to regain (or forget?) his stage presence from a bygone era. It was a pity because I really wanted to clap. Leeds said that Spacehog toured with Oasis and The Black Crowes back in the day. Langdon remained friends with Rich Robinson ( the less baked, axe-wielding brother of the Crowes) and played a tune which they co-wrote. Excellent cover of Grant Lee Buffalo's Jupiter and Teardrop. Closed with a wonderful rendition of Todd Rundgren's A Dream Goes On Forever complete with audience sing along for the acapella bits. I kooked Leeds after the show, " you won't let us clap, but you want us to sing in the Todd register?"
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