The Cult/The Mission – review

Apollo, ManchesterThese two bands last toured together in goth's comically excessive 1980s heyday, but today there's a weird disconnect between the Mission's songs about serpents and the chaps with sensible haircuts on stage. Still, as ageing goths clamber on to each other's shoulders, bassist Craig Adams summons up an old spirit when he plays on top of a speaker stack and tumbles to the stage.Critics tittered when the Cult's 1987 album Electric transformed them from a Bradford-based, quasi...

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