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Echo & The Bunnymen
2/1/22 @Sheffield City Hall in Sheffield, UK
Crowd Critics Fan Review
by Calvin Bailey
Photos © Calvin Bailey
After nearly 2 years away from the live music scene due to covid cancellations I was kinda apprehensive as to a whole new experience called, “Going to a gig.” I need not have been as I took my front row seats at the Sheffield City Hall. And what a fabulous building: Art Deco at the best. Everyone was relaxed, calm and very polite, it was almost surreal. Hardly a pre-gig atmosphere, I think everyone was nervous!
Well we need not have been as Echo & The Bunnymen delivered a top quality set, coming back on twice to do encores which really rounded off a great evening.
Bang on 9pm out comes McCullouch and the band. He kicks off with a couple of real oldies from the back catalogue. In fact the first 4 were tracks from albums I’d not heard in ages. His voice is top draw and through the shades I can see a guy who knows his stuff in music.
He jokes in between songs and makes everyone feel at ease. Next, we get “Bring On the Dancing
Horses” and we all get up and have a dance on the spot. He keeps up the good work with lots of stuff I know and some I don’t, but all equally performed to a high standard by this stalwart to music.
As the set goes on I’m growing to love it more and more, and once “The Cutter” is played it can’t get any better. Off they go only to come back and blast us with “Lips Like Sugar” and trot off. Will we get anymore? Well yes, one more entry and the best till last! “The Killing Moon” rounds off something I’ve been waiting 2 years for and what better way than Echo & The Bunnymen for making me realise what I’ve missed.
I’ll be back Mr. McCullouch, life is good, take a bow sir.
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