Father John Misty live at Eventim Apollo, London

Photos by Adam Hampton-Matthews

Father John Misty live in London, March 2023 (Adam Hampton-Matthews for Live4ever)

Father John Misty was at the Eventim Apollo on March 8th.

Father John Misty will continue his UK tour in Brighton tonight after the 2022 release of fifth solo album Chloë And The Next 20th Century – on which Josh Tillman was at his, ‘idiosyncratic best’, according to Live4ever’s review:

“Tillman clearly has more potential to lose than in this meta considering the boneyard of failed attempts by other voices but then again, his alter-ego it seems has never really considered such a thing as odds.”

On his side as ever though is an almost stoic belief in his right to be there; gently crooning Opener Chloe sounds like something which might be played at the Overlook Hotel when the ghosts were on a night off, but the heroine is dismissed as a ‘Borough socialist’ and the narrator himself duly fills his pockets with drugs supplied by ‘her unscrupulous therapist’.