BRMC have dropped off the map somewhat in recent years.
They no longer garner anything like the media attention they did in the early part of the last decade, and the crowd at Concorde 2 on Thursday suggested that their recent records aren’t attracting armies of younger fans.
New album Beat The Devil’s Tattoo is not about to convert sceptics either. A stylistic traipse through the band’s back catalogue, it crams together the folk, blues, gospel, and out-and-out rock and roll of the previous five albums at the expense of any really decent songwriting.
Typically deep in black leather and thick smoke, it seemed that, barring a new drummer, not much changes on the road with Peter Haynes and Robert Levon Been.
Yes, they played to a packed venue. And yes, they tore through huge renditions of songs like Weapon Of Choice and often sounded exciting.
Sadly though, there was no avoiding the feeling that BRMC are playing an old hand nowadays and, at two full hours, playing it for far too long.
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