It's Jo And Danny - God's Closed His Eyes (Double Snazzy)
UK release date: 25 July 2005
I am too young to have been caught up in punk's year zero ideals, the musical
scorched earth policy that reviled anything pre-1976. When I heard the terrible
folk rock of It's Jo And Danny I wondered if they had a point - stale sweat in Arran
jumpers and spilt real ale.
This 2:04 of musical hell for me. Ever so polite guitars, fiddle and border
pipes dance naked around a bonfire. The vocals sound like a librarian in the
thrall of Iolo Morganwg druid's prayer. Hippies with unkempt beards and the
smell of mung beans on their breath.
It's worrying there as at least three LP's
worth of this stuff out there. The culprits Jo Bartlett and Danny Hagan live in
isolation in a Welsh farm house. I wished they had stayed there. Now I know why
Primal Scream wanted to Kill All Hippies.