Do musicians ever deserve to be jeered off stage?

Sonic Boom was treated to a hail of boos at Koko on Tuesday. His crime? Not being familiar to the young crowdMusical visionaries do not deserve to be booed off stage. But that is what happened to Pete Kember (aka Sonic Boom, the founder of drone-rock legends Spacemen 3) this week. I didn't want to believe it at first. I clutched at straws, hoping they were shouting "Boom!" and I was mishearing. But at the end of a lengthy experimental support slot at Kurt Vile's show at Koko on Tuesday night the...

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