KING GENIUS RECORD FESTIVAL

Sat 17 August

The Pomfret Arms

Back at the Pomfret Arms once more and it’s like deja vu, whilst recalling these events I’m at risk of merging each event with the other as each melts into another in my sun-drunk memory. My third round at the Pomfret Arms was this time in aid of the King Genius Record Festival. The lineup included all the bands on the King Genius record label and included Pat Fish aka The Jazz Butcher, who pulled off a particularly memorable psychedelic rendition of Marley’s Buffalo Soldier, Canyons, headed by former Awesome Wells member Steve Ward, their offbeat folk blues rock featuring an accordion reminiscent of the Doors’s “Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) caught my attention, and finally coming to a close with the funktastic headliners P-hex, featuring the unique and powerful vocals of the ever charismatic and quirky frontwoman, Katie Paton, who proved she can sing, dance, drink and smoke, all at the same time.