Jack Hayter is
a rotten gutted and scorched throated musician from the slimy south of
London. Crawling onto the musical map in bands such as
Hefner, Spongefinger and
Dollboy – Hayter was a pedal steel machine.
“Sucky
Tart” could easily be the sound of a parallel universe Captain Ahab
returning home, having vanquished his demons both physical and
psychological, only to find his wife in bed with his greatest living
enemy.
In 2002, under the encouragement and production of Darren Hayman, Hayter
released his gorgeously gruff debut solo album, “Practical Wireless”, on Absolutely Kosher Records.
“Sucky Tart” (a crafty anagram of the EP’s opener) owes little to Hefner or
even “Practical Wireless”. This is the sound of a unique songwriter given time
and freedom to blur the lines between the trad. folk of his influences and
the London anxieties of his past with dirty fuzz, biting wit and of course, ‘the
universal language of a drunkard’.
“I bet she’d sleep with a man who’s got a tall ship!” he cackles on ‘I Stole The Cutty
Sark’ but whimpers “You’ve got the last face that I want to see and his are the last
hands I want laid upon me” on ‘A Simple Song’ – Hayter approaches familiar pains
through both everyday happenings and wild eyed pirate fantasies. Whether you got
lovesick to the point of scurvy, trapped in a doll’s house or simply let your love fall
where it shouldn’t - Jack was watching.
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