Review: Shame, SWX - 'The more energy the crowd gave, the more the band gave back'
The post-punk band provided a high energy set full of their well loved tracks
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The post-punk band provided a high energy set full of their well loved tracks
Shame are elusive again on their third studio album.
While Shame's second album didn’t have the same impact as Songs Of Praise, given the chance to breathe live the songs sound huge.
7.5/10 More than half of the citizens of this planet have non-linear lives at the moment, so putting musicians on a pedestal would be the worst kind of exceptionalism. But even with the radical changes and breaking up of many things we’d taken for granted, for London quintet Shame it’s highly likely their path into the twenties wouldn’t have been anything like orthodox anyway. Initially part of a grubby cabal once based around the Queen’s Head pub in Brixton (now gentrified), the then precocious teenagers were taken under the wing of various members of the Fat White Family, their ...