I last saw Pop Will Eat Itself in the latter part of 2022, doesn’t seem that long ago. They were fantastic then, they were fantastic tonight! But why expect any different! It’s PWEI!!
Coming on to ‘The Incredible P.W.E.I. vs. the Moral Majority’, the opening track of ‘Cure for Insanity’ and rolling into ‘Dance for Mad Bastards’ as on the album is simple genius, it just works, and the crowd showed the appreciation, it surged! The audience was predominantly the older generation that had fallen for this band back in the early 90s, I remember being in Spain on a family holiday in 1990 and having a random conversation with a lad from Manchester about how great this band was! There was a younger crowd there as well tonight all singing and dancing which was great to see.
As expected it was a sonic onslaught! Smashing through fan favourites, just keeping it relentless. You could see then fun the band was having. The crowd feeding off them and reciprocated, that loop continued! The pit just bounced start to finish.
Just look at the setlist
- The Incredible P.W.E.I. vs. the Moral Majority
- Dance of the Mad Bastards
- Everything’s Cool
- Not Now James, We’re Busy…
- Karmadrome
- R.S.V.P.
- Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!
- Chaos & Mayhem
- Can U Dig It?
- There Is No Love Between Us Anymore
- Bruiser
- PWEI-zation
- Touched by the Hand of Cicciolina
- Disco Misfits
- Def Con One
- Bulletproof!
- Ich bin ein Ausländer
- Vive le Rok
- Wise Up! Sucker
- Their Law
If you know the band it’s a complete WOW list if you don’t then you should!
And the best bit, well a great bit is ‘new music’ a couple of new tracks on show which sounded as good as what’s come before, not compromising on ‘their’ sound for a modern audience, they know what their following want and that’s what they are getting, new album on the horizon, so more live shows on the horizon, Graham Crabb himself I’m sure said album 2025 so not long hopefully I want that again!
