Jack Penate - 'No One Lied'
Once London’s chirpiest indie-pop scamp, Jack’s in sombre mood on this stripped-down comeback. Where he once tried a little too hard to impress with his relentless Cockney charm, this is a shot of pure heart-on-sleeve emotion. Rick Martin...
Live Review: Jack Penate
ack Peñate looks nervous, as well he might. Having watched his first album – a cheery, chirpy, Mockney affair – arrive to somewhat less than a standing ovation even in his native Britain, his decision to start the tour around the release of...
Album review: Jack Penate - 'Everything Is New'
In 2007, Jack Peñate was dragged yapping through the Ginsbergian negro streets of indie, whipped, scourged and flogged for his sins. It was not entirely his fault. He’d had the misfortune to arrive at a historical moment that made him the...
Jack Penate
Another day, another Peñate single. This one sounds a bit like The Kooks if Luke didn’t swagger so much and the lyrics were even more lifeless and banal. On the plus side, however, it’s kind of perky and kind of fun. What’s more it, um,...
Jack Peñate; Astoria, London, Wednesday,...
“What are you doing?” asks a bamboozled Jack Peñate midway through his set as a rowdy scuffle breaks out in the front few rows of the heaving Astoria. “That’s not what it’s all about! Don’t be pricks – people came here to be nice to...
Jack Peñate: 'Matinee'
First things first – there’s something fantastic about the fact that a musician whose primary musical influence is Wham! can infiltrate both the ‘real’ charts and the hearts of the sixth form, squat party-touring Skins set like a Hawaiian...
Jack Peñate/Lethal Bizzle; Scala, London,...
It’s not easy being grime kingpin Lethal Bizzle. First up, you write the greatest party grime track of all time – 2005’s ‘Pow! (Forward Riddim)’ – but it causes such carnage at clubs across the UK that management put up signs in DJ...
Jack Peñate
Acid house covers and falsetto squeals as London prodigy wows the steel city Considering the derision of his “public school rock’n’roll crew” on brilliant scenester-baiting ‘LDN Is A Victim’, you’d have thought Jack Peñate would...
Jack Penate
Coming on like Jamie T fronting Dexy’s Midnight Runners, south London soul boy Jack Peñate is what happens when people pick up guitars and have a stab at being Sam Cooke rather than the Kaiser Chiefs. It’s nothing to do with class. It’s...
