'Whilst greatest hits sets seem ten a penny these days, they are, at the very minimum, a chance to reflect on a career retrospective'
‘Songs to learn and sing’. The title of the tour of which had its ninth instalment in Manchester on Monday night, with Echo and the Bunneymen dropping anchor here in the North West for the first time following jaunts across all corners of these craggy isles, and a huge European and US trip to follow.
All the Jazz follows. It’s energetically strummed, staccato guitars, atypical of the post punk sound of the time. All Gang of Four with McCulloch’s pained vocal echoing around the venue. This is no more apparent when the band launch into Never Stop from 1983’s Porcupine. It’s new wave, disco percussion sounds as fresh as ever. All Talking Heads, ESG and Devo, yet expertly filtered through the sticky dance floor and smoky corners of Liverpool’s infamous, yet eternally influential, nightclub, Eric’s.
In terms of personnel, McCulloch and Sergeant have become the somewhat reluctant couple, showcasing proudly their box of records. Mac the difficult yet charismatic frontman. Eternally a rake-like silhouette, hanging from the microphone stand and engaging with the crowd from behind those ever present dark glasses. At times coherent, largely not. Yet never straying from his sole purpose of enlightening the thousands with his delivery.
Nothing Lasts Forever then raises the roof. Dropped in 1997 as a marker of their first reformation. Amid Britpop madness, its Mersey melancholy seemed to chime with a generation, punctuating many subsequent life moments for now forty or fifty something music fans of the time. And that’s apparent here tonight. Its latter jive is merged into Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side and the venue’s dancefloor reacts accordingly.
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