Echo And The Bunnymen in Swindon? Well, it's Echo And The Bunnymen, but not as we know it. I will explain, but first...
I got over to the Link early for this one and watched the two supports from the balcony; Wholesome Crack (wholly crap?) were a local load of student art-wank, and The Lucid Dream a bouncy dance pop band who weren't too bad. However, I tucked into the cider, which was more interesting than both.
I first saw Echo And The Bunnymen 10 years ago at the Oxford Apollo at the inception of my gigging days. This incarnation is not that band though; now minus the face and voice of iconic vocalist Ian McCulloch, and the driving rhythms of the sadly deceased Pete DeFreitas, they're starting afresh with a frankly anonymous vocalist, thankfully singing none of the McCulloch-voiced songs. A reasonably good band in their own right, purveyors of swirling, psychedelic-tinged dancey pop with some good tunes, they played a good set, but compared to the titanic Bunnysongs of old, they were massively disappointing. And therein lies their problem; by still calling themselves The Bunnymen, they'll always be compared to what went before. They should have changed the name...
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