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Beans On Toast: The Loft, Southampton
If there was ever an upside to the confusion, uncertainty and misery that is gradually engulfing everyday life in the UK, it is that Essex-born troubadour Beans On Toast has never had so much material to work with.
Beans, the moniker of 42-year-old Jay McAllister, has assiduously documented and detailed British life across 15 albums and almost two decades as a musician, developing a cult following for his blend of upbeat optimism, barbed social commentary and stirring protest songs.