All in All

The Shangri-Las once sang 'I can never go home anymore' and I often think that this is a motto we should all live by. We should stop looking at the past through Rose-coloured glasses, it's never the same.

Case in point being Thomas Lang. Now I have always loved his music - 'The Lost Letter Z' is in my all-time top 10 albums - and I loved seeing him at Ronnie Scotts during the late 80s/early 90s. I was excited 18 months ago when he came out of seclusion and did a gig at the Jazz Cafe. He was a bit crap, the new band were a bit poor, the new stuff was awful and as I left I made a slight promise to myself never to do this again.

Keeping to this promise I decided not to bother seeing Martin Stephenson ever again. I loved him 10-15 years ago, saw some great gigs at the time (except for the one promoting 'The Boy's Heart', which was a crap album) but it's not the same anymore.

So once again my motto has been put to the test. Lene Lovich is doing a gig at the tiny Metro club in April. I was a huge Lene fan in the late 70s/early 80s but never got to see her because I just didn't do gigs in those days. It will never be the same, she must be pushing 50 (not that that means anything, it's just symbolic of how much time has passed).

Nonetheless, I couldn't pass it up, especially at what is such a great venue (we saw the darkness there before they hit the big time and then became a big joke), so I have bought my tickets. Tune in next month for my lengthy blog regretting this and promising never to do it again, again.

# posted by hitch @ 3:09 PM