So, another first Sunday of the month and another Bandstand Busk – this time in Victoria Park. Sitting between The Clientele and Fyfe Dangerfield on the bill was the wunderkid Tristram.
The twenty-year old Tristram Bawtree is troubadour with a voice that could melt moving cars and a folksome storyteller’s knack for songwriting and performing. Commencing with the melancholic “Somebody Told Me a Poem” (which I’m still singing, in my head, hours later) he runs through a four song set that is as resplendent with humour and literacy as it is with craft and poignancy.
He simply makes very beautiful songs about very simple things.
