One of the best feel good gigs ever and one of my all time top
gigs. When you hear R&B this good (and R&B younger readers is not Usher or
Kanye West), anything else is almost an imitation. Why this band called it
a day not long after (although now a going concern again) without getting
their due recognition is one of life’s mysteries - they were criminally
neglected. My memories of this gig were almost destroyed by their 10th
anniversary reunion show in London in 1990 when my mates and I who had
seen this Friars gig actually walked out of the London one, and I’ve only
done that on one other occasion. Thank God when I did see them again in
1996, they had rediscovered their 1982 abilities and were very good.
