HEAVEN 17
CAMDEN ROUNDHOUSE
5 SEPTEMBER
★★★★
THIS ISN’T PHIL TALKING: TURNING BACK THE CLOCK TO CELEBRATE THE EARLY PERIOD OF THE HUMAN LEAGUE
Alamy
Here’s an interesting one. By now we’re all used to heritage bands performing their classic albums in full. But what about someone performing two albums that were recorded more than 40 years ago by a completely different act?
Well, not completely different. The common factor here is Martyn Ware, who as he explains here had been thinking about recreating the first two Human League albums live for more than a decade. Phil Oakey ummed and ahhed and eventually decided he’d rather not, at which point Ware’s Heaven 17 colleague Glenn Gregory piped up to say that he’d do it.