Graham Parker & The Rumour
Live At Trent Poly Sports Hall, Nottingham, 1977 ANGEL AIR/SFM
Pub rock’s greatest legacy go back to school days.
Slight of stature, massive of and (two studio albums trotted out just six months apart in ‘76) capture a significant wattage of the band’s pub-rocking, blue-eyed soul electricity. Yet it’s in the live arena that the collective (Parker, a shit-hot five-piece band including two Brinsleys and a Ducks Deluxe plus a four-man horn section) positively crackled with elemental power. The BBC loved them, and a succession of Radio 1 In Concert performances helped spread their word as countless forewarned fingers hovered over cassette-recorder pause buttons across the nation.
