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The Black Crowes at Brixton Academy 9 April 2008.



A few weeks ago on a typical Wednesday night, we went along to the Black Crowes gig at Brixton Academy. They came on on the dot of nine and played the jammy blues rock set you'd expect, focussing mainly on songs from "Southern Harmony and Musical Companion" and a few tracks from the newer albums whose names I don't think I ever knew.
Brixton was sold out, and when it became obvious to the crowd the Crowes weren't interested in playing their old hits, a number of people seemed a bit disappointed, J included. No "Hard to Handle", no "Twice as Hard" and no "She Talks To Angels". Luckily, A loves the Southern Harmony album, and they played most of it really well. And fair credit to the lads, they did a long 2.5 hour set including an encore.
The highlight of the night? Either "Remedy" or the only song they did from "Shake Your Moneymaker" - "Jealous Again".
Good gig, but a lot of punters went home wishing they'd heard a song they knew.

3.5 out of 5, unless you are a BC fan, then maybe you'd go for a 4.

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