Jakefest 2006 on Look North

[WalkerBros4Ever]

A unique talent, an acquired taste perhaps but a definite English eccentric... not fitting the mainstream of entertainment.

[stupidcunts]

what ???

[draftsmann]

Isn't that the jazz guitarist Ike Isaacs in the background playing some very nice melodic fills? Excellent stuff!

[dfarmbrough]

This is great, but the sound is out of synch with the picture

[ericamydear]

im a young man from london and i heard jake thackray about 3 years ago but the guys an absolute classic so funny as long as im alive his memory wont die... so we're not all plebs down here northeners!

[MITCHWILD]

@ericamydear I remember watching Jake when i was a little kid living in Wimbledon in the sixties, pleb! Me!.....I don't think so.

[jamierourketen]

they had to bury him upside down!!!!!"JOLLY CPT"

[PMDVD]

We saw Jake at the Theatre Royal - Lincoln. A great turn but a bit weird!

[Gangly1]

This man was a genius. A great guitar player with a gymnastic tongue. A very, very rare talent indeed. The BBC hierarchy should be ashamed of themselves.

Northern English humour gathers dust in the vaults, lest it's written by the "in-crowd" or ridiculing us.

How appalling.

This man deserves better.

RIP Sir.

[kitch77]

Don't turn this into some anti-northener campaign - I don't remember Bernard Manning gathering dust in the vaults - unfortuantley.

However I will agree on The word genius to describe Thackray

[maudie25]

having seen Joost's Jake in a Box, why cant the BBC get more vids out of their huge archives and give us some DVDs, There would be a good market for them. I yearn to see Jake doing Lah de Dah Maudie 25

[chippyfish]

I have really got in to him since seeing a documentary about him a couple of years ago. I play guitar but I must say the man is an absolute genius guitar player as well as a great songwriter.

[matjohnroe]

I was listening to the excellent "jake in a box" last week, and i thought how sad it was that i own his entire back catalogue, and love it so much. I wish i had never heard him, so that i could discover him all over again. Jake, you are greatly missed.

[ringadingadan]

Thackray got his inspiration from the French comic song writers Georges Bressens and Jacques Brel. His imitators lack the real sense of humour articulated by his voice and guitar, that he imported from his French mentors and adapted into his own unique style. The covers I've heard follow the chords and sing the words, but lack his gutsiness, with the guitar used as a second voice to the singer, rather than something jingling away in the background.

[PadSpin]

Anyone else think there's a hint of Noel Coward in Jake's vocal delivery?!?

[jph3660]

I can't remember where, but years ago I read someone approvingly describe his style and lyricism as "Noel Coward meets George Formby," which I thought put it well. And yes, I know Formby was from Lancashire.

[stupidcunts]

'' he's made of sterner stuff,he's not dead enough''

[stupidcunts]

VERY talented man.

[COLYERFAN]

Nice to see Krista Ackroyd again - we get the Humberside version of Look North. I saw Jake at Lincoln Theatre Royal quite while back - didn't know he'd died poor lad! (Exiled Yorkie)

[shaffersteph]

Oh, he was so much fun! I wish that I could have seen him in concert!

[Leonmitch]

Jake was a genius...A unique one off!! God rest his soulxx

[burnt62]

what a great guitarist

[pomdeterror]

jake. a genius.

[thebigchap]

here's another

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v­=XQm_8uoljWM

[FabProductions]

AT LAST....Jake on YouTube!

There MUST be some complete performances knocking about somewhere, the BBC have loads archived. Let's be havin' them!

Thanks to jakethackray.com for keeping his music and wit alive.

[davidchastity]

Agreed, more Jake please. C'mon BBC instead of wasting our license fee on brain dead programmes, get yer fingers out and release some dvd material.