Echo and The Bunnymen, Newcastle Academy, 14 Feb 15

Typically dim lit for an EATB show...

Echo and the Bunnymen, Newcastle O2, 15 Apr 13

Virtually no light to work with... supporting James.

Ian McCulloch, Newcastle O2 2, 28 Sep 12

A semi-acoustic show, with Ian Broudie playing some minimal electric riffs! Nice to hear some stripped down versions of Echo & the Bunnymen classics...

Echo and the Bunnymen, York Grand Opera House, 29 Sep 11

It had been a few years since we'd last spent an evening with the Bunnymen, so a chance to hear the whole of the classic "ocean rain" was too tempting to resist...

Cast in 80s shadow, Ian pulled off a great set, with a warm up section of songs including bedbugs and ballyhoo, never stop and rescue.

After a short intermission (toilet break for an aging audience?), ocean rain was performed... epic!

A couple of encores followed the album recital, with nothing lasts forever, lips like sugar and the cutter completing a fantastic evening.

Lighting was pretty much behind Ian McCulloch for the whole show, so photography was vitually impossible!