Songs From The Seaside

LONGY AND THE GOSPEL TRASHLiner Notes for “It’s 12 – Live in Southend”There are live albums, and then there are documents. This is the latter.It’s 12 – Live in Southend captures Longy and the Gospel Trash at full tilt: twelve songs, a full big band, an upstairs pub in Southend, and a room thick with sweat, brass, electricity and belief. No studio polish. No safety net. Just wood floors, warm beer, overblown horns, and songs that have already lived a few lives before landing here.Recorded in Longy’s hometown, upstairs in a pub where the ceiling feels low enough to lean on and the stage was never designed to hold that many players, this album isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence. You can hear the crowd pressed in close. You can hear glasses clink between verses. You can hear the band pushing air around the room like they’re trying to lift the roof clean off.Longy and the Gospel Trash have always existed somewhere between sermon and bar fight. There’s gospel in the uplift, in