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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Mark Beaumont

Jack White at the Eventim Apollo review: A torrent of virtuoso riffing

It was a wonder no-one put out a Bat-Signal. Resembling a maniacal supervillain dubbed The Bluesman – blue hair, striped trousers, statue of himself at the back of the stage – one-time White Stripes main man Jack White tore across a cinematically draped Hammersmith stage.

For his first major London gig since 2018, he spewed frenzied blues rock like a man not so much possessed as unleashed.

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