Jeremy Messersmith, Radio Day Stage , SXSW, Radio Day Stage, Friday 14 March

Jeremy opened with a more rocky sound than that on the material we're familiar with from his first two albums. He seemed to have grown into a rock'n'roll singer after the baroque-esque 60s pop of his earlier material.

The new sound was reflected in the lyrics and themes. The second song took a close and thoughtful look at infidelity, with the subject protesting 'it's only dancing'.

After that tune, the band launched into one of their early, Beatlesy numbers, which they seemed to really enjoy playing, and followed that with another of their lovely 60s-esque tunes. They then played another song from his new album, which Jeremy said was mainly a set of love songs.

He then played a lovely song about a man asking his wife to be his one-night stand, leaving the children and wedding rings at home and going to cheap motel. This was followed by a song about wanting "a hitman for my heart", which had a lovely arrangement. As Jeremy strummed his guitar, the guitarist played a few ringing notes, then the whole band crashed in.

The set closed with a lovely foot-tapping country tune, with beautiful quiet verses and then a train-beat driving towards the song towards the choruses.

Other SXSW 2014 reviews from Broken Biscuit Records:
Damon Albarn
Gruff Rhys
Woman’s Hour
Wolf Alice
Jeremy Messersmith