‘There are other ways to listen,” says Joe (Jamie Rea) to his new friend Andy (Dylan Wood), a busker he has discovered on the street and invited home for a drink. He takes off his shoes, the better to feel the vibrations through the floor, and straps on a gadget called a Subpac. He gets Andy to lean his full height against a towering speaker stack. Only then does the rumbling bass kick in.
Little, perhaps, to distinguish them from two drum’n’bass enthusiasts, but this is something else. Joe is less singer than signer, a BSL speaker whose disability has been no impediment to his love of music. He tells an incredulous Andy that he appreciates sound by feeling it and puts his hand on the musician’s acoustic guitar to demonstrate. They form the least likely of songwriting partnerships.
