MP3 of the week: Jason Webley

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MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/jasonwebley

WEBSITE: www.jasonwebley.com

Musical style: Folk / Punk / Gypsy

Likened to: Tom Waits, Gogol Bordello

Who in the name of the great absinthe acpocalypse is Jason Webley?

* Wears a gorilla mask on stage

* Recorded his first cd in his kitchen

* Is very big in Russia

* Looks like Nick Cave in a party hat

So, tell me more of this Jason Webley

Nearly eight years ago, Jason Webley packed in his day job, took his accordion and himself on the road and kept going until he ran out of money. Thank God he hasn’t run out yet.

Leaping on stage with his long coat, lovely hat and gorilla masks he attacks the microphone with a voice that makes Tom Waits sound as though he’s been gargling Listerine for a month. His stage craft and songs built on almost a decade of street performing, he can encourage any audience to point at the sky, stare at their finger and spin. Then sing. He’s a cheeky one this chap, one time leading a legion of fans dressed as pirates onto a Seattle ferry. Other times staging guerilla musicals in supermarkets.

His music is a live monster that rushes through an audience, making them giddy with sing-along happiness, mixed with a dark as pitch humour and expert performance. One moment mellow and melancholy, the next raucous and shouty. He’s recently finished a short stint supporting The Dresden Dolls, before embarking on an eleven day tour of America in November, before touring Europe next year.

If you can, please go to Jason Webley's website and consider buying his albums. This may surprise you, seeing as he plays the accordion and all, but Jason Webley is not rich.

Trust us, the accordion is the sound of 2007.

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