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Lapsus Linguae - London, Monarch Thursday 12th September 2002
Lapsus Linguae were on a bizarre bill tonight. Sandwiched between a band that could have been straight out of the ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’, and a more mainstream ‘rockabilly’ type band, they seemed strangely out of their league with the audience tonight.

Looking around, most people didn’t know who they were, apart from the small smattering of people at the front. But LL went on to show yet again that they don’t give a fuck about what the crowd do or don’t want.

The fact that it was full of the typical chatty London types that go to gigs and TALK insistently, may have made the band go all out and produce possibly the tightest and loudest gig I’ve seen them play for a long long time. Some people looked a little shocked, and were even more so when any attempt at heckles during the beautiful solo piano parts, were shouted straight down in typical LL style. You could almost hear the culprits thinking “oh the cheek or it when I’m trying to hold down a conversation.”

LL came out top as usual, and there even seemed to be a little less fighting on-stage.

They came, they saw, they played, they won.

Superb!

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skippy

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