“There I was, smoking methamphetamine, and now here I am on this big stage with my stupid friends,” grinned Viagra Boys’ frontman Sebastian Murphy to a sold out Brixton Academy: the Swedish punk band’s largest UK headline show of their ten year career to date.
Topless, covered in tattoos, and sporting sunglasses and a pair of Adidas tracksuit bottoms — Murphy’s de facto uniform — it might have made for an unlikely hero’s journey but it encapsulated the lawless and frequently hilarious spirit of the sextet perfectly.
