The Louisiana in the Bristol night ...
Mumm-Ra raise the audience from the dead after Amusement Parks on Fire - notice the lady smoking which is TOTALLY against the rules.
Noo singing and playing the guitar at the same time - shame it's an unmiked acoustic!
Day after day, band after band ...
I've been playing in bands for years and seen hundreds, but I'd never played in a place as small as the Louisiana - even Littlehampton Guide Hut was bigger - and I don't think I've ever seen a better band than Mumm-Ra. They got everything right. Perhaps it's just the unbeatable atmosphere of the Louisiana - more jazz club than rock venue, or because they're from Sussex, or because I'm still in the throes of glandular fever, but Mumm-Ra had an aura of potential greatness about them.
And we fucking saw 'em at the Louisiana with about 80 other punters!
The best thing was their sense of fun - they LOVE doing this! Noo is a genius frontman, a natural showman. But they're also as tight as fuckery and polished as Yul Brynner's head. The songs have hooks that you almost recognise straight away and you can dance to 'em. What more d'you want from a band? They were such a contrast to miserabalist, talentless, egotist Amusement Parks on Fire (the 'support' band) that I felt we'd run the whole gamut of potential in under two hours. How The Automatic managed with Mumm-Ra as support I can't imagine! I bet Pennie shat his pants!!
Anyway, catch 'em before they go off the boil, the smaller the venue the better, and make sure that a 6 foot 8 clone of Bonnie Langford isn't in the audience - this fucker will do everything he can to block your view!
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