Half a century on from their commercial peak, there’s a sense that Sweet (definite article dispensed with way back when) are a band performing a perennial encore, given the fact that their tour in 2015 was said to be their last. So although Full Circle is being promoted as their “final studio album”, we’d surely be foolish to expect them never to return.
Since the halcyon, Brian Connolly-led days of Ballroom Blitz, Blockbuster et al and being regulars on Top Of The Pops, their line-up changes have been so frequent that they make Hawkwind and The Fall look stable. The one stout thread running through them all, though, is Andy Scott, whose lead guitar playing and cast-iron fringe has remained in situ since the band first rose to fame in the early 70s, bar six years after they split in 1981.
