Last year Luke Haines released a concept album about 70s and 80s British wrestling. Here he was in London to perform this. No band, just him an acoustic guitar, a casio VL-tone and a roadie dressed up as Kendo Nagasaki giving out liver sausage sandwiches to the audience during 'Saturday Afternoon'. The wrestling songs are played very well with good interaction between Haines and the crowd, with the artist explaining why you should never unmask a masked man. After the wrestling songs had finished, Luke Haines then read pieces about his pop strike from his last book, Post Everything. Very funny he was too especially the piece when he was on the radio four today programme. After the reading he played a few songs from his last couple of albums including the great song about Peter Sutcliffe Leeds United and the autobiographal 21st Century Man. A surprising lack of songs he performed with his 90s group The Autuers, he did end with Showgirl the oldest song in the set. A great evening.
Set :- Inside The Restless Mind Of Rollaball Rocco / Gorgeous George / Linda's Head / Saturday Afternoon / Big Daddy Got A Casio VL Tone / Haystacks In Heaven // Reading from Post Everything / Leeds United / Walton Hop / Death Of Sarah Lucas / English Southern Man / 21st Century Man //// Alan Vega Said / Child Brides / Baader Meinhoff / Showgirl
# posted by Rich @ 10:30 AM
