Opening the night are Huck and the Handsome Fee. Sadly, this is their last show in their current incarnation. Huck announces, “we are Huck and the Handsome Fee and this is our final gig, except we’re not and it isn’t”, which is a potentially confusing sentence, but is strangely true. The band’s second vocalist and guitarist, Tamara, couldn’t make it tonight due to illness, leaving just Huck, Bat and Tommy, who are, in fact, forming a new, as yet unnamed band. So, tonight the band play some Huck favourites, in addition to giving us a first look at a couple of songs...
Huck and the Handsome Fee are a talented unsigned band from Oxford. They play bluesy, often mournful Americana music, and they play it well. Drawing inspiration from Nick Cave and Tom Waits, they are an unlikely band to have been created from (some of) the ashes of legendary Oxford sludge rock band, Sextodecimo, but unlikely in a good way.
The band line-up is Humphrey “Huck” Astley on vocals and acoustic guitar, Tamara Parsons-Baker on vocals and acoustic guitar, Bat Halliday on bass and Tommy Longfellow on drums. Tamara was a later addition to the band, but her vocals are a welcome,...
