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  Seven Songs for the Week #56 - 1st May 24

  Jason Carty

  Thomas Walsh is Pugwash. He's been releasing melodic pop records for over a quarter century and they sell in the hundreds, even though his list of endorsements is huge. Last week he played his first Dublin gig since before the pandemic in Whelan's. I was expecting it to be in the main venue, but no, it was in the upstairs room with less than 100 people. The support act had a terrible "the music business is shit" rant because his mind in the 90s missed an opportunity to get signed in the US or something. The support managed to knock over Thomas' acoustic guitar - cut to: Thomas comes on stage, realises his guitar is out of tune, then finds out his tuner has no battery - cut to: I'm standing on stage holding up my mobile phone trying to help him tune up, but I hadn't noticed he had a capo on so it didn't work.

  Towards the end he does this song and tells the story of how he played it for Jeff Lynne who gave him a thumbs up at a lovely chord change. Anyone who spots the chord change, said Thomas, could win an album. I put up my thumb at the chord change, and was identified by Tosh (Divine Comedy /Pugwash guitarist) and got my free record.