His name is Jake Thackray and he should be a legend! My dad used to play his tapes in the car when we went on long journeys as a kid (somewhat censored but still superb) of course I didn’t understand most of it but I stumbled across a documentary about the fella on the bbc (not on the iPlayer cos it’s not aging celebrities making idiots of themselves trying to dance) and was reminded about how much I enjoyed his work and how criminal it is that more people don’t know who he is!

So to try and spread the word in my own little way here is “Brother Gorilla” by Jake Thackray, who was a shy retiring genius of a man who damn well should be a national institution; he died in 2002 at the age of 64.

Jake Thackray – “Brother Gorilla”