It was interesting to note the diverse age groups present and their varying reactions to the set, which seemed to be very well received overall.
My wife, who professes to ignore my record collection and whose Roxy knowledge is therefore largely limited to songs played on commercial radio, was bored until the final half dozen numbers (but then she'd enjoyed Duran Duran joining in Mark Ronson's set, which probably puts her taste in perspective!
). It has to be said that Jealous Guy, Virginia Plain and Love Is The Drug did seem to warm the audience up; prior to that the best reaction seemed to have been for More Than This...
That said, there seemed to be a few twenty-somethings who were already familiar with songs like ReMake/ReModel and Ladytron, which offers hope that class is lasting... Needless to say, those in their forties and fifties were revelling in the pre-1976 stuff (and justifiably so; it's a class apart from the later songs).
My thoughts on the set list were posted after the Helsinki gig, although I'd add that I think it's disappointing for Let's Stick Together (or any BF solo recording) to be performed at a Roxy gig. Whether they'd rehearsed it, I don't know, but the song drew Andy and Phil's most tentative solos on the night; hardly surprising, since they will presumably have played the song only rarely.
