Album Review: Tim Rogers - An Actor Repairs

You've never had to scratch deep into Tim Rogers' often self-deprecating rock star swagger to find the soul of an old-style theatrical.

It's no surprise this album started out planned for the stage - mostly a musing on the muse as the title character ponders more opening nights behind him than ahead, on a stroll home after that couple of backstage clarets. The Bug for the applause remains, but the use by date is close. As Youth has it "...(it's) not wasted on the young, but it's wasted on me", delivered with a knowingly arched eyebrow, but still with a glint in a slightly jaundiced eye. There's many curtain calls left in Mr Rogers yet.