How incredible it must be for a band to travel half way across the world and be so warmly embraced as DMA’s are each and every time they return to the UK.
With a career-spanning album of Cast’s singles already out in the shops and a box set to follow in the new year, John Power, the band’s frontman, could be forgiven for being in full-on retrospective mode.
HOW many tribute bands get to play at a birthday party hosted by a member of the band they are paying homage to, but it happened to The Australian Pink Floyd Show, when they were asked by Pink Floyd’s guitarist David Gilmour to play at his 50th birthday party.
Even before James take to the stage at Leeds’s First Direct Arena, their scathing British wit is out in full-force, in the form of a short, animated cartoon billed as a “public service film”.
Twenty-five years ago west coast rappers Cypress Hill, flushed with the success of their eponymous debut record, unleashed ‘Insane in the Brain’ on an unsuspecting audience.
