Oh, what’s this? Just me and Danielle thanking Bob Mould for playing an amazingly brilliant set in London tonight. No big deal. I wasn’t pathetically star-struck or anything.
With no backing band (just himself and an acoustic or electric guitar), he stormed through about 20 songs drawn from his solo work, Sugar, and Hüsker Dü back catalogs. It was a superb gig, partly because the venue (the Bloomsbury Ballroom in Camden) was small and intimate, but mostly because he was on brilliant form, laughing and joking with the crowd between songs and generally enjoying himself.
He’s playing in Brighton on Wednesday, if anyone can get to that gig, and he mentioned tonight that this will probably be his last time in the UK for a few years (boo-urns). I suppose I will have to go bother him at home in San Francisco instead.
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