287. From The Jam: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds [17.5.18]

Artist: From The Jam

Support: Steve Cradock

Venue: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

Date: 17.5.18

A potentially great gig, spoiled by an appalling crowd who talked loudly throughout Steve & Sally Cradock’s acoustic support set and then continued to drunkenly chat and chant lyrics over Foxton & Hasting’s acoustic reworkings of The Jam classics.

This is the only occasion on which I’ve walked out of a gig at the usually exemplary Brudenell Social Club.

Gig culture is changing for the worse. People need to shut the f*ck up and watch the band, or piss-off to the pub for a chat, so those of us who want to hear the gig can do so.