If Jack Peñate is to skiffle what the Chili Peppers are to funk, ‘Have I Been A Fool’ isn’t quite his ‘Under The Bridge’, but the thinking behind it’s much the same.
It’s the track to prove there’s sadness behind the south London bounder’s massive grinning visage, and much as it’s a load of old cobblers, it also kinda suits him. For there’s an emerging truth about Peñate’s dubious art form, and that is the more muted his breathless brand of infant joy appears on record, the happier everyone else is, just as a child’s excitement at seeing his father return home from work must occasionally jangle on his overworked nerves.
In light of which ‘Have I Been A Fool’ may even be worth a punt as a kind of Pavlovian experiment: if we reward crestfallen Jack Peñate sufficiently, hopefully he’ll adjust his demeanour accordingly and finally rid the nation of his more insufferably upbeat musings.
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He
always seems to be running in his videos.
Maybe his musical problems stem from this?
i hate
this mans songs, hair, top button, face, dance and shoes.
so there.
put a tele and a fender twin
in the hands of Jeff Buckley and you had an entrancing performance.
Put them in the hands of Penate and you get George Formby for the NME generation.
Nowt wrong with Formby
Hatfuls wrong with Penate.
That said Second Minute Hour was as catchy as fuck, but then again so was Umberella by Rihanna, doesn't mean I wanna hear it.
can't stand..
He's just another fookin gimmick. Bilge.
i would
take pleasure in crushing that mans legs with a juggernaught so he cant ever dance again... or maybe just chop his arms off...
Awful!
Awful.
Kack Penash
LOLOLOL
When your as one dimensional
as this tool the second album isn't so much difficult as impossible.
I understand
If people don't like this guys music, style, image etc etc. But I assure you he isn't a gimic. I played a gig a good 3 or 4 years back and Jack Penate was opening. I got chatting to him and he is a really really nice guy. Back then he had no record company interest at all. He would just go from gig to gig by himself, without even pressuring his friends to come and support him. He danced like an idiot back then aswell and had the same style.
I love being a sceptic about certain musicians. But my point is that this guy was doing his thing when knowone came to watch him and he had no recod deal. I take my hat off to guys like this who are trying to get somewhere because they obviously just loved playing. Like I said, I can understand it if people don't like him but please don't throw the whole gimic thing at him because his style wasn't manufactured.
long live the Queen