'I feel like a man in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, clinging on to a washing-up liquid bottle.' So said Chris Wood, one of the most interesting and subtly compelling of contemporary songwriters, playing to a large crowd at J2 on this Monday night. 'Hasn't the recession bitten here?' he wondered. Recession was a major theme of his current repertoire, at least a context for his sensitive but frank and simetimes angry songs of reflection.

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