Transcript of BBC Radio Merseyside Spencer
Leigh ‘On The Beat: Juke Box Jury’ show
19/02/05
Panelists:
SPENCER: …band called The Gutterfighters in Liverpool. And I’m going to play a live track from a gig that they’ve done at The Zanzibar. Glenn sings lead and writes songs and this is about being true to yourself and the song’s called ‘Words of The Rhyme’.
…band called The Gutterfighters. That’s what they sounded like at The Zanzibar so let’s find from Bren O’Callaghan whether he thinks they have potential…
BREN: I think so! Its gruff, its raw, its awkward and I value that above the slick and packaged and neat and ready to go. Erm…name doesn’t quite go with the sound I feel; when I heard their name I thought perhaps I’d be scared to bump into these but not at all really, they sounded quite softy. Erm but its music (for fiddling to hot the?) candle wax to as a tortured and troubled teen, which is a God-given right that we should all be allowed to continue with.
SPENCER: OK, Howard
HOWARD: Interesting…melancholy…got a bit of an early 80s Dylanesque kind of feel to it here and there. Nice recording for live, I thought they pulled it off.
ROBBIE: I thought it was a good live recording. It was interesting to not hear the audience until the end. Maybe they were spellbound listening to The gutter…
SPENCER: Gutterfighters
ROBBIE: Nearly said Gutterfixers then. However, its not something that sets me alight
SPENCER: If they were The Gutterfixers they could do a selection including Fiddler on the Roof!
SPENCER: Andrew
ANDREW: I think it’s a mood setting song. You’ve got to be in the right mood to listen to sort of , like you say, the candle-light sort of lit down but nothing wrong with it you know I like that type of song. Vervey. You know. You’d remember it if it got to be ahit or anything like that. Is all of their stuff like that?
SPENCER: Er, I haven’t heard it. Glenn just came in earlier on…
ANDREW: Its very difficult to judge the band from just from one I suppose
SPENCER: And just gave me the CD and I said what track should we play and he said that one
ANDREW: But it’s a live, live recording. Doesn’t sound like they’re from round here do they?
SPENCER: Err not particularly no. But not everybody sings with a scouse accent. In fact the Beatles didn’t, dd they. They sound American when they sing.
