30 SEPTEMBER
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When Dave Ball told Classic Pop over the summer that the setlist for Soft Cell’s reunion gig was “threatening to become like bloody Bruce Springsteen”, we assumed he was joking. In the event, their first show for 15 years was a marathon of subversion, fitting over 30 songs into around two-and-three-quarter hours. For a concert which sold out instantly despite tickets costing £195, there were some heroically unlikely moments to fill Britain’s second-biggest arena.