Europe – review

ABC, GlasgowEvery veteran rocker on a world tour keeps a cheat sheet of cultural references in the back pocket of his leather trousers. In Scotland, that usually means jokes about porridge. So when Europe singer Joey Tempest tips a wink to notorious tonic wine Buckfast and calls an amorous female "Mary Doll" (the missus of Rab C Nesbitt), there are gasps of glee as if he has performed a trick learned from Derren Brown.Pandering to local fans in scattered territories is key to the revitalised E...

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