Marc Almond – Albery Theatre, Charing Cross

I remember this gig specifically as me and Mrs RP had walked in to a nearby pub and it was only after we ordered we realised it was, erm, biased towards the LGBTIQA+ community – and 100% male before we got there. In 1998 we got a LOT of stares. Today I don’t think anyone would have batted an eyelid. We chilled out for a bit there – I never really cared much what strangers thought about me.

Marc had played a whole week of gigs at this theatre, which was renamed in 2006 as the Noël Coward Theatre. I don’t remember a lot about it, but it was a long set, a couple of Soft Cell numbers and some Marc and the Mambas too.

Way back in 2006, Andy Young posted a track from this show to YouTube. Thanks Andy, wherever you are!

Setlist:

• Fun City (Soft Cell cover}
• Open All Night
• On The Prowl
• The User
• Untitled (Marc and the Mambas cover}
• Black Heart (Marc and the Mambas cover}
• Bad People Kiss
• Lonely Drag (But I’m Alive)
• Sleepwalker
• I’ve Never Seen Your Face
• Champagne
• Bedroom Shrine
• Black Kiss
• A Lover Spurned
• The Devil (Okay) (Jacques Brel cover)
• Beautiful Losers
• Stories of Johnny
• Tenderness Is A Weakness
• My Love
• Crime Sublime
• Saint Judy
• Tragedy (Take A Look And See)
• Night and Dark

  Encore:

• My Hand Over My Heart
• Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Soft Cell cover}
• Seedy Films (Soft Cell cover}
• Jacky (Jacques Brel cover)

Saturday 19 December 1998, 129 views