Music review: Jarv Is, Leith Theatre, Edinburgh
Jarv Is, Leith Theatre, Edinburgh * * * *
“Are you ready to take Leith of your senses?” he inquired over a powerful and pumping opening number, before diving into the beefy, angular garage rocker Further Complications, the laugh-out-loud lyrics of baroque pop nightmare Mary and the motorik maelstrom of Must I Evolve.
Evolution was an underlying theme of the set, as he quoted the forward-thinking sense of a number of public figures born on this day, from blues maestro John Lee Hooker to waspish wit Dorothy Parker, as well as presiding over the understandably cathartic singalong to C***s Are Still Ruling The World.
Fiona Shepherd