Steeleye Span | Folk review

Barbican, LondonThere should have been a stronger sense of occasion for this concert. It was the 40th anniversary for the band that took British folk to mainstream rock audiences, mining the dark elemental mystery of traditional music with classic albums such as Hark! the Village Wait and Please to See the King. They are also the first and, one suspects, last band to have a hit with a 16th-century Latin incantation, 1973's Gaudete. And yet it all felt very much like business as usual.For the fir...

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