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jinglejangle-digest      Wednesday, May 19 2004      Volume 07 : Number 078



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  [MLL] Review - London 17 May 04                           [AidMerr@aol.com]

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Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 07:49:15 EDT
From: AidMerr@aol.com
Subject: [MLL] Review - London 17 May 04

This was at the Borderline - which IMO is one of the worst venues in London - 
stifling hot, grossly crowded even when half empty (the L-shaped auditorium 
means everyone crams up to the stage to get a glimpse of it) and intolerable 
when full, with sightlines so bad the place has to be fitted with TV screens so 
the crowd can see what's on stage, and the acoustics of a coke can. So, I was 
sitting through the (I thought not very good, and quite inappropriate - but 
they all share a label in the UK) support acts getting more and more hot and 
irritated.

ML, though, was superb. Backed by Nick Salomon (who, every time I see him, 
seems to have taken a further step towards metamorphosing into a sheep), the set 
consisted of pretty much the whole of the KRS EP (I think only "That Kind of 
Girl" and "Speeding Motorcycle" were missing, plus a chunk of B.B. and some of 
the very early singles - virtually none of the "Live City Sounds" covers or 
"Got No Shadow". MLL was looking very tired - the set was a full hour and a 
half (and did I mention the Borderline is very hot?), but the whole band stayed 
buoyant - despite a few near-misses (it was pretty obvious, even if MLL hadn't 
told us, that the band hadn't played most of the stuff together before). And 
Nick S. has missed his vocation as a cabaret MC - he had a great line in patter 
while MLL was tuning up.

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