Cocos Lovers at Sandwich Folk'n'Ale Fest

Sunday 7th July 2019
Fleur-de-Lys, Sandwich

Foolishly I didn't check the listings, so had no idea Kangaroo Moon were playing earlier that afternoon. Oh well. They were followed by Ed Tudor Pole (briefly John Lydon's replacement in the Sex Pistols) who I missed while chatting in the Smugglers Cafe next door. He was seen enthusiastically responding to Cocos later on, which was cool. It's always good to see the six of them on stage together, something quite rare these days. It was a rowdy, beery crowd, and they rose to the occasion, but I do prefer their more sensitive sets played to attentive audiences. Everyone was singing along with the "Emily" encore, turning a delicate jewel of a song into a football chant, basically. But everyone was having a good time. The opener "Horizons" took me back to seeing them play that for the first time in Tenterden about ten years ago. And "Witches" off the new album sounds fantastic. The new album should be out soon — I do hope they keep going...