Our Man In The Field - Saturday 18th January 2025 (TICKET)

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Our Man In The Field live at Smokey Joe's Saturday 18th January 2025

Price £16 includes £1 booking fee

Smokey Joe's Cheltenham

Badlands presents the wonderful "Our Man In The Field"

"This is fabulous, the harmonies are really amazing"
Mark Radcliffe BBC6 Music

"The Level of sensirivity laced into the music and the lyrics are nothing short of wondrous"
Bill Bentley Amiricana Highways

“I think of Our Man In The Field as kind of a character and not really even me,” says Ellis. “Something like a Jack Kerouac or an Albert Camus. A writer and a correspondent, a roving reporter but more like a TV version in the ‘70s; Hunter S Thompson but less guns and LSD. Mostly, I don’t want the listener to think about the songs as being mine or about me, it’s more about the story and the characters in there. They’re always about real people and hopefully that makes them relatable.”

“Last Dance,” the first single to be released from Gold On the Horizon, harkens to the sonic aesthetic of early Johnny Flynn and Ondara while Ellis sings of friends who went through a traumatic breakup. In the song, one romantic partner asks for a quiet departure from the relationship (“If you’re leaving in the morning / Go before the sun comes up”) while the other requests another chance at redemption (“If you’re leaving in the morning / Can I have one last dance”). The emotional push and pull is offset by the band’s bright, upbeat, sophisticated indie-folk feel, crafted by a country fiddle melody, groovy backbeat, oscillating synth line, and Ellis’s warm and comforting vocal timbre.

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Our Man in the Field - Feel Good (Lyric video) (04:10)

Feel Good V1: Won’t call you up When it knows you’re blue Won’t stop you doing what it knows you shouldn’t do And it can’t be blamed For the moves you make But it makes you move them all just the same Chorus (X2) Won’t it make you feel good Won’t make you feel good Won’t it make you feel good Inside V2: You can tell yourself you’re going to be fine Stay well away from the line And if it comes too close Close your eyes each time You don’t need it Anymore But you’ve still got the taste in your mouth Chorus x2 Middle: Can you hear the voices while you’re sleeping Saying that the company you’ve been keeping Is creeping up on you Don’t it make you… Chorus X1 Out I don’t know if it hurts you By mistake or by design But it’s easier to leave Than it is to stay behind And it only does you harm But there’s nothing to be done Because it makes you feel so good Won’t it Won’t Inside Inside Don’t it make you © Our Man In The Field 2023