The Ritz,Manchester
Without the drugs, and supported by the youthful enthusiasm of bassist Jen Turner, and Evan Dando gives his hit parade the care it deserves – and brings lumps to throats“Uh,hey, thanks, or how’s it goin’?” begins Evan Dando. Several days unshaven,his mop of hair streaked with what could be engine oil and white shirt mysteriously stained by purple dye, the Lemonhead looks fantastically dishevelled, and like someone emerging from a party that lasted a very long time.
The chisel-featured “alternahunk” became the golden boy of US grunge-era slacker rock after 1992’s It’s a Shame About Ray turned him into a global superstar. However,a subsequent public meltdown saw him follow Oasis like a fanboy, lose his voice to crack and heroin and – after a marathon LSD binge – ask his arresting officers whether they could release him so he could disappear and find his intellect. The script didn’t exactly propose that, and two decades later,he’d be fully recovered and the 90s would be back in vogue.
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Source: theguardian.com