Face Of Cheam

A friday night in Brixton then for a reformation of The Cult. I get to Brixton tube and there are plenty of goths around to celebrate. A beer in the wetherspoons where surprisingly their poster telling everyone how cheap they are, actually tells you its cheaper opposite in the Goose. (£1.89 a pint compared to £1.60). A few cheap pints and a win on the Bullseye machine and I'm off to the venue. Everyone is wearing black, either skinhead or lots of hair and either looking good or skanky!
The Cult come on and the singer Ian Astbury is looking fairly normal, I was expecting an Indian outfit. They start with a dodgy version of L'il Devil but this mainly could be because of the sound at Brixton which often starts a bit odd. By the second song, a seering Sweet Soul Sister they're back on track. Despite Astbury's denials before Revolution, this is clearly an excercise in goth nostalgia with no new tracks being played and a 'best of' set being played with prime cuts from the classic albums 'Love' and 'Sonic Temple'. Rain & Fire Women are obvious highlights and as you'd expect they end with 'She's Sells Sanctury' which has every person in the venue bouncing around. Billy Duffy was fantastic on guitar with every song having an 'A-Z' of riff based rock and Astbury's vocals still sound strong. All in all a welcome return for The Cult!