First saw The Mission at Reading Festival in 1987 when they were fantastic, and they were every bit as good in Warsaw a couple of days ago:
Really loved listening to a contant stream of old classics starting off quickfire with 'Beyond the Pale'; 'Serpent's Kiss', and (the Neil Young classic) 'Like a Hurricane'.
Occasionally, the classics were nicely broken up with tunes from the new album of which 'Tyranny of Secrets' is my favourite.
But the old classics just kept on coming: 'Tower of Strength'; 'Garden of Delight'; 'Wasteland'; Butterfly on a Wheel'; and the best tune of the night for me, 'Like a Child Again'.
Great backing vocals by Evi Vine especially on 'Severina' and a slow accoustic version of 'Love Me To Death':
And of course, the band were always going to do 'Deliverance'.
Back in the day, I saw The Mission four times between 1987 and about 1990, twice at Reading Festival, and twice at Manchester Apollo.
So it was fantastic to catch up with the band a couple of days ago in Warsaw. Think that after some time, Wayne Hussey could see that people in the crowd weren't shouting out between songs, because they were so absorbed in the music, it was mesmerising.
First came across The Mission on the Old Grey Whistle Test in the mid-1980s when Julianne Regan (one of the greatest female voices ever) was doing the backing vocals to 'Severina'.
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