Jonathan Richman at Òran Mór Preview

"One-two-three-four-five-six!" With this rallying cry, Jonathan Richman kickstarted not only his career with his band the Modern Lovers' anthem Roadrunner, but the movement of proud suburban losers and romantics which somehow metamorphosed, through a lineage taking in bands as diverse in style and quality as Talking Heads and Weezer, to become what we now know as indie rock. With his off-kilter, semi-spoken paeans to ordinary life and loneliness, Richman established himself as something like a visionary, trapped in the body of an awkward young man. As with many visionaries, however, he's ploughed a lone furrow, often by choice, shedding band members here and there, but never losing his wistful outlook on the world. Go along and see if you share it.

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