Jack Whitehall and the Trustfund Hipsters Play Glastonbury

 

 

Jack Whitehall and the Trustfund Hipsters @ Glastonbury

 

What will the ‘Glasto’ moment of 2013 be? Mick Jagger cavorting on stage with a druken secretary from Cheam? Sir Bruce Forsythe dueting with Public Enemy on Sophisticated Bitch..? Discombobulate ripping the Dave Pearce tent a new one? Kenny Rogers Rascal, or George Osborne convincing Michael Evis that a few roads through his farm would ‘just about do the trick?’

 

Nope, none of the above. It’ll be Edith Long Bowmen interviewing Jack Whitehall and the Trustfund Hipsters, before they take to the Dermot-O’Dreary-X-Factor-Santander-O2 stage , in front of a VIP ‘invite-only’ audience of politicians, bankers, the landed gentry, BBC 2 wives, millionaires and a couple of wounded soldiers. Data charges will apply.

 

The band members play multiple instruments in live performances. Jack Whitehall foregoes his privileged Independent school upbringing at Marlboro Lights College and sits at a drum kit. The band uses bluegrass and folk instrumentation, such as banjo, upright bass, mandolin and piano, played with a rhythmic style based in alternative rock and folk. ‘These are possibly the instruments of our Father’s father’s fathers.’’  says Harry Zak Cooper-Porsha the bands bass player rather unconvincingly.

 

Much of Jack Whitehall and the Trustfund Hipsters lyrical content has a strong literary influence, their debut single, deriving from Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Rupert Benedict Fortisque, the bands guitarist has been quoted in interviews as saying, ‘We like totes relate to those sharecroppers, the Joads, in Grapes of Wrath being driven from their land in the book as our fathers too have lost money as shareholders. The storms of the dust bowl could be a metaphor for the storms we experienced as children if we didn’t pass grade 6 viola. The Battle Hymn of the Republic could almost be the song we walk on stage to, were it not for our choice of Dire Straits Money For Nothing’’.

 

The track Scotch Beef includes lines from the play ‘Glasgae Bhoys in the Hoody’, written by MC Ahreet Ya Bas, dealing with gang warfare on the streets of Govan. Jack Whitehall makes the connection with this and his father's beef farm in the highlands.

 

To be fair to them, though, the band are simply cultivating their own niche, even if it's obligatorily for them to hang up their instruments when it's time to take over their fathers business.

 

Jack Whitehall and the Trustfund Hipsters play Glastonbury on the 'Dermot-O’Dreary-X-Factor-Santander-O2 stage Saturday night and the  'Enver Hoxha Stage for self-managed, decentralised economy based upon autonomous self-regulating economic units and a decentralised mechanism of resource allocation and decision-making Stage' on Sunday night.