Wolves gig review in The Express and Star

Here is a review of the Wolves gig in The Express and Star - their local paper. Enjoy & Cheers!

http://www.expressandstar.co.uk/2006/10/30/classics-lift-crowd-to-new-level/

Cheers Alan, i was looking for the paper here in Brum yesterday but couldn't find it. The Wembley review posted by Shug was a bit bizarre I thought?

Villa Mark wrote: Cheers Alan, i was looking for the paper here in Brum yesterday but couldn't find it. The Wembley review posted by Shug was a bit bizarre I thought?

No probs Mark. Can't comment on The Express and Star review as I wasn't at the gig but it seems pretty fair based on the gigs I've been to this year. I agree with you about the one in The Standard. It was a bit strange and I reckon Andre Paine was at a different gig to the rest of us. IMO he's a flavour of the month music journalist biased towards anyone who isn't and NO gave him ammo for his 'aging rockers/ravers' tone of his review. However I don't give a toss about his review as I loved the Wembley gig, I think most NOOLers who were there did too and I hope you enjoyed Wolves as well. Cheers Mate!

Classics lift crowd to new level New Order, Wolverhampton Civic

The Coolest Band In The World(TM) swanned into the Civic last night as if they owned the place. Within 20 minutes, they did. Epic opener Crystal gave way to four minutes of pop perfection in Regret, followed quickly by Ceremony.

Pictured right: lead singer Bernard Sumner on stage last night at the Civic Hall.

Moments later their Joy Division classic Transmission elevated the capacity crowd into musical heaven.

Ordinary bands would have been in severe danger of peaking too early. These blokes, though, are extraordinary. Breaking ground since the late 1970s, which other group can claim to have influenced indie, dance, rock and, yup, pop?

To do it without losing an ounce of credibility shows what a 24-hour party pack of Mancunian attitude can do.

Not that they look the part; Bernard Sumner, now 50, dances like Peter Kay at a wedding, while Mrs Merton’s ex Peter Hook looks like Alan Rickman mugging his way through an indie Spinal Tap film.

The sound wasn’t great all night, although mixing the trademark bass guitar, synths and Sumner’s dulcet (ie. flat) vocals can never be easy. Not that any of this matters when your material is of such high quality.

Set closer Blue Monday is one of the most instantly recognisable tracks of the past 30 years.

Topping it with Love Will Tear Us Apart as an encore was just showing off.

By Keith Harrison

Great but who was the f----r who threw a pint pot of warm piss over three of us in the front row half way through WFTSC? Let God be your judge you sad bastard.