Lee Patterson
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at OOTB
(March 2004)
"From the sublime to the ridiculous" was Lee Patterson's introduction. He played an absolute belter of a song, "sometimes I think I'm wasting time, but time is wasting me" drawing whoops and hollers from the audience. It told the life story of a hobo, right from being taken from his mother by social services, to "offering blowjobs for a baggie, but I've had no takers yet!" One of the best lines of the night, that one, along with "I got a brand new second hand car, and all it cost you was an alarm!" It was the longest applause I've ever heard at the Waverley, and rightly so, this was a wicked performance and you'd be hard pushed to find better anywhere.
(Jan 2003)
I missed Lee Patterson the only time he played at OOTB a few months ago but I have been lucky enough to hear him sing many times in my life. "Just Like Any Jack or Jill" is a 'thank you' song for his wife and when Lee sings 'I need love, love, love, love' it is up there with Marvin Gaye in its emotion and delivery. Inspired by listening to T-Rex "I Am A Man" is untamed, incessant rock 'n roll which, even played on an acoustic guitar, blew the ceiling off the Waverley (I don't think Lee meant it as a tribute but Mickey Finn, the inspirational bongo player in T-Rex, died last weekend). "Don't Ask Them Why", accompanied only by Lee's bodily percussion, tore through the bar like a tornado. An intense, primal plea not to question what we are being fed particularly through the media was held up like a mirror to the reflection of our lifestyle today and it wasn't a pretty sight. The audience roar at the end of this said much more than I could. A brilliant performance from Lee.