The Royal Albert Hall doesn’t exactly scream ’Monday night rave’. Yet that’s exactly what happened last night, as Karl Hyde and Rick Smith – aka Underworld – kicked off a week of concerts in Kensington Gore to raise funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Underworld’s performance was a world away from the genteel entertainment the Hall was built for – though there’s something quite Victorian about Hyde’s pantomime-like dancing. The room was packed full of millennials eager to relive their Nineties heyday alongside parents keen to show their kids how cool they once were. Over the course of the night, the same children who think dad dancing is a criminal offence were gyrating to the songs from the Trainspotting soundtrack.
