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Live Music Review: Laibach
Everyone's favourite tongue-in-cheek totalitarians are as full-on as ever
Great helmsman: Laibach's Milan Fras [Elekes Andor/Creative Commons]

Laibach
Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

LAIBACH are currently touring off the back of Liberation Day, the acclaimed documentary — or should that be mockumentary? — about the group’s gig in North Korea which made them the first Western band to perform in the country.

The gig in three parts start with a special screening of a film which offers a hugely entertaining window into the various ups and downs the group faced trying to navigate the country’s notoriously bureaucratic systems.

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