Show 39 – Saturday Night with The Who Boys – The Old Jack Mathers Show - (February 22, 2009)
On this show we play our only ‘concept’ album, ‘The Life & Disaster of Old Jack Mathers’, in its entirety. We feel this is arguably our best lyrical and musical achievement as a whole album. It’s dark – my God it’s dark – but it’s based on a character we used to see in our local pub when we lived around Holloway Road, London – a very sinister man. This is his life story, in the form of music.
It doesn’t really matter what we say in between the tracks on this show, as the show is really all about the album, so the programme just lists the tracks of the album in order.
Turn the lights off, pour yourself a glass of wine and enjoy.
1. Young Jack Mathers
2. Old Jack Mathers
3. "He was one of these self-deluded tossers"
4. Mathers in the betting shop
5. Place that Bet
6. "He was somebody who looked like he wanted to kick yer head in"
7. Mathers’ Wife
8 ."I’ll tell you about old Jack Mathers"
9. He Went Down
10. "This became my local when I got out of prison"
11. Mathers’ Memories
12. "He was a malign influence on the pub"
13. Inside the Mind of Mathers
14. "There’s one in every pub"
15. Lonely Hatred, Putrid, Wasted
16. "Some say the guy had a criminal record"
17. Mathers Waits
18. "I remember the smell"
19. "I warned him"
20. Mathers in the Hospital
21. "So what happened to him then?"
22. No one miss you when you die
23. The Legacy of Old Jack Mathers