Apart from the upcoming Echo & The Bunnymen reunion, I've been left a bit cold by the recent craze for playing whole albums live. But the news about Public Enemy's Brixton rendition of 'It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back' has got me buck wild, as a believe we used to say back in the day.
Speaking as someone who saw P.E. quite a few times when they were releasing records that people were bothered about, rather than appearing on reality TV and curating Black music history, I'm most interested in seeing who's actually going to be attending the gig. Given hip hop's obsession with 'the new thing' I can't really see many current heads getting down with Night Of The Living Baseheads' and 'Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos'.
So, it could well be the oldest hip hop crowd in living memory. Whatever, it'll be fun.
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