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Nitzer Ebb
Nitzer Ebb's sound, which captured the zeitgeist of ’80s British counterculture, is as relevant as a commentary on today’s strong-arming superpowers as it was then, finds WILL STONE
Frontman Douglas McCarthy
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NITZER EBB
Lafayette, London
FRESH from a gig in Warsaw, industrial legends Nitzer Ebb would have been a bizarrely apt act to see in the Polish capital, a country that neighbours war-torn Ukraine.
As if to prove the point, sartorially conscious frontman Douglas McCarthy strides onto the stage — not removing his trademark aviators for the entire set — to launch into a thunderous rendition of Blood Money to the thump, thump, thump of programmer Vaughan “Bon” Harris’s drum pad.
Shouting his lyrics (he doesn’t sing), McCarthy is quite the stage presence as he dances, struts and shakes his hips to every tune, delivering three more from second album, 1989’s Belief — For You, Captivate and Hearts And Minds.
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