The week before Christmas, at The Troxy in Stepney, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s month-long tour of Europe clattered to a close. Or, even, limped.
Clearly battling winter lurgy and some intra-band spikiness, the Los Angeles-based threesome slogged their way through a set that felt like it lasted three hours. The song selection was notionally based around a 20th anniversary celebration of 2005’s third album Howl. But it was also packed out with non-hits, with co-vocalist and co-guitarist Robert Been grumbling about that third album’s poor reception from the “pissants” in the UK who’d so enthusiastically lapped up predecessors B.R.M.C. (2001) and Take Them On, On Your Own (2003).
