Bobby I Can Fly

Cowes Soccer Membership

Isle Of Wight

Oct 2023

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John Robb will get the ferry to the Isle Of Wight and will get to see native legends Bobby I Can Fly play a uncommon gig.

On the ‘different island’ life is identical however barely completely different than the mainland. It might seem like the UK however  it feels someway feels Stepford Wives dislocated. There’s a slight shift within the axis and the island has a cloth and time scale of its personal. It additionally has a music historical past to have a good time that features basic Who gigs within the sixties, Stage 42’s homespun bass pushed funk gymnastics and naturally extra lately, Moist Leg, whe are all very a lot a part of this very native tapestry. Bobby I Can Fly have been the island’s greatest hope within the eighties who managed to climb a few rungs up rock n roll’s merciless ladder earlier than drifting again into actual life.

A long time later, they’ve reformed for the hell of it, and tonight is a type of nice gigs the place nothing issues aside from the second. They may by no means change the world or create musical historical past, however they spin an online of musical love that fills the room with real heat and humanity and perhaps that’s sufficient for any band.

Their sound is that form of combine and match of suburban moddish punk with the brass pushed rush of Insanity and even the early Farm with an added precision participant whose solo breaks give the tracks a surge of power and idiosyncratic swing. There’s a nod to the basic Cortina songwriting of Paul Weller and that very English knack of soundtracking the magic within the mundane. They ship their catchy effectively written songs with a real ardour and the years roll again as I’m transported into the portal of a really private world. There may be a lot pleasure within the room as songs that have been mini anthems from a time that even time itself has forgotten make sense once more with that timeless energy that nice songwriting has. 

It’s someway emotional and fascinating, a bunch of geezers younger at coronary heart after dwelling a life enjoying their music for the hell of it. Bobby actually do fly and get their anthems out of the cabinet within the storage and mud them down with a real love and fervour that defies the many years and is a snapshot of each the highly effective optimism of youthful endeavour and the way in which these years when every little thing was attainable and the music that soundtracked it’s so entwined into souls.

The room is filled with sound and recollections, and solely the toughest of hearts wouldn’t soften at a band that has a real emotional clout to their music in addition to an neglected knack for writing quick sharp shock anthems with nice melodies and common private lyrics that might nonetheless join at many festivals throughout the UK.