Garbage Days Revisited #43: The Jacobites - "Robespierre's Velvet Basement" (1985)
"And as the snow fell on her doorstep, she wipes away another tear. And he says he's always gonna miss her but she always knows when he's not here" - The Jacobites - It'll All End Up In Tears As this is our last Garbage Days Revisited of 2021, I thought I'd finish on an album that always reminds me of Christmas for some reason. Hailing from the same pool of Birmingham troubadours that brought us the great Dogs D'Amour , it was actually through Tyla's band of outlaws that I first encountered the Jacobites in the mid-noughties. The Dogs had just reissued their debut album The State We're In which featured future Jacobites six stringer Dave Kusworth on guitar and after hearing the band spoken of in hushed terms in the review of it, I was sufficiently intrigued to splash out on a copy of this album which, happily for me, had also just been reissued at the time. After he left the Dogs in late '84, Kusworth would join up with Nikki Sudden to for...