Gigs by tonight’s headliners are rarer than some of the rarest things you can imagine: you’re more likely to get the Pope and the Dalai Lama simultaneously knocking on your door than find this heavyweight combo’s name on an “upcoming shows” list at your local venue, and it would probably take the combined skills of Indiana Jones, Lara Croft and Howard Carter to uncover the last time such an event occurred (it was 15 months ago on this very stage, to save them the exploration!). So, needless to say, their rare forays into the live domain are pretty much “must be there” occasions, and therefore work rotas were re-arranged to enable an almost equally rare venture by myself into the dark back streets of Belfast and up the stairs to my favourite venue for this, their only show this year…
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