The fact that the Hoodoo Gurus were in Glasgow sometime in 1989 came as news to me. My powers of recall charted just a singular appearance, opening for Boner and Co. in 1987. But anyway, it's a bloody long time since they were here.Given the wealth of material that they can choose from, a Gurus set is never going to be long enough. Tonight there was a curfew that you get in these venues where the gig is a precursor to the disco. Although I’m pretty sure there couldn’t have been anything on a Tuesday night? You can see from that what was played and it was great to be in the company of so many people who knew the songs. I was curious to hear Dave introducd “Death Defying” as “the closest he’d come to writing a country song”. Just the other day, I was thinking that Amy Allison could do a corking version of that very number.
When all is said and done they have a whole caboodle that should have swept the world. Tonight they let us have it with some of ‘em at full tilt volume. They closed the night with a Persian Rugs song (I think it was “Be A Woman”?) and the perennial “Like Wow Wipeout”.
Edinburgh was a strange choice. Maybe next time they’ll shimmy back to the West Coast and I’m sure most of those who were present would make their way there too.
It was great to meet those guys too after all these years. I think I was the first person to review “Stoneage Romeos” here in the UK, a couple of lifetimes ago. The fact that three-fifth’s of the band from the “Mars Needs Guitars” is still available to throw a party of this magnitude (cum loudness) is testament to the world’s rock audiences being largely deaf and/or stupid.
With some Bow Bar pies for pre-show sustenance, The Gurus brought some considerable hoodoo down on this otherwise sleepy Tuesday night in Auld Reekie. They’ve still got it and you need some. I hope the flood gates will open and more Australian combos will make it this far north.
4 comments:
the fall played last time on a monday and tuesday night because they could play till after midnight - they played a half hour set there once and cancelled the next gig because of the foolishly strict time constraints - who goes in a club before midnight ? surely its better for the club to have a room full of drinking punters until 11 instead of an empty room ?
Edinburgh was a good choice, theres a lot of australians here and a lot of them were at the gig
So are you telling me this was a tactical thing because there are a lot of Australians in Edinburgh?
Also, if the gig wasn't on then the place wouldn't be open at all. What do you mean who goes in a club before midnight? Folks who might like a little entertainment before that presumably. Old people like me who've been bitten by the "curfew" before.
old bastards like me and the rest of the lurkers who need to be safely back in the retirement castle before 11:30 - we go in clubs before midnight (to see bands and then go home complaining, generally)
Howard Wall
"Edinburgh was a strange choice" - "So are you telling me this was a tactical thing because there are a lot of Australians in Edinburgh?"
I mean I wonder why you think Edinburgh was a strange choice because there was a lot of australian punters there and it was a pretty busy gig for a tuesday night
Murray R
"Tonight there was a curfew that you get in these venues where the gig is a precursor to the disco" "What do you mean who goes in a club before midnight?"
I mean who goes into club before midnight as in a d.i.s.c.o. club not a gig
is that really Howard 'Lurkers' Wall ? ex/present Lurker Arturo Bassick likes to keep going past midnight, or at least he did until he was recently disabled with Labyrinthitis. I keep dipping into Esso's book and find myself halfway 6 pages forward before I know it, its like Monte Melnicks book crossed with "the grass arena"
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