Jamie Webster playing Day 1 at Neighbourhood Weekender 2023 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Jamie Webster released his second album last year.
Jamie Webster, The Kooks and The Wombats are our among highlights from the first day of Neighbourhood Weekender 2023.
We spoke with Webster at South By Southwest last year just a short time after the release of Moments when he told us, among other things, of his earliest exposure to music.
“My mum was the big music fan in the family; she was really into Bowie, and both of them liked Squeeze, along with Genesis,” our feature reads. “Later she got into Snow Patrol.”
It was her that made me take guitar lessons when I was a young kid, but I hated them. It wasn’t until I went to high school that I actually got into it as an instrument, mostly because a lot of the kids there were into music, as well as the school being in the part of the city The Beatles came from.
“I became mates with Danny Murphy (now a band member as well as playing with The Coral) and he showed me things like barre chords and recommended some songs to learn. We even started a band together, although it fizzled out when we were about 16. After that, my dad was an electrician and when I left school, I went to work with him. At this point music was just a hobby.”
