This week there was a powerful and thought-provoking piece on the Guardian Music blog about accessibility to music for people with hearing impairments. Written by Lee Walker it is well worth reading, and goes on to mention TOY’s captioned and subtitled gig (the first time this has happened) at the Islington Assembly Hall which took place on the 24th March.
Robert Wyatt is is the patron of Attitude Is Everything, a charity dedicated to improving venue accessibility for deaf and disabled music fans and this is TOY’s excellent cover of their favourite Wyatt track Free Will And Testament.
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Instrumentally I prefer this cover, vocally the Unthanks version gets my vote.
Hadn’t come across the Unthanks version I have to confess. Off to check it out now…