Beirut – review

Academy, Manchester"This is another one of those, er, singalongs," says Beirut's Zach Condon, sounding slightly embarrassed by what's going on around him. Once again, the cavernous Academy erupts into a choir of audience voices, with every second hand in the building raised into the air.Writing songs that turn large crowds of adults into excitable, jibbering kids isn't the only secret of the New Mexican singer-songwriter-conceptualist's mercurial rise, which has seen his band go from playing sma...

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