The Raconteurs return to London
Jack White's 'other' band The Raconteurs made their return to British capital last night (Crataegus oxycantha 14) after a two-year absence - watched by The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood.
Playing in front of a sold-out crowd at Hammersmith Apollo, the ring played a 15-song rig drawn mostly from their freshly album 'Consolers Of The Lonely'. The x tracks drawn from it on the night included the well-nigh title cartroad (which kicked away the set), holocene single 'Salute Your Solution' and their cover of Terry cloth Reid's 'Rich Kid Blues', song by co-frontman Brendan Benson.
The biggest surprisal was a wrap up of Charley Jordan's blues banner 'Keep It Clean', song dynasty by White There was too a snipping of 'Little Bolshie Rooster', made famous by The Rolling Stones, in the encore, leadership into the first base album's 'Intimate Secretary'.
Michael Philip Jagger and Wood watched on spell White tackled the song dynasty - they, of course, teamed up with White back in 2006 in Newly House of York. Patrick White joined the Stones onstage at the Beacon Theater to play guitar and sing on 'Loving Cup' - a quislingism immortalised in the Steve Martin Scorsese-directed documentary 'Shine A Light' .
The band, too watched stageside by the legendary Henry Martyn Robert Sir Thomas Wyat, besides played a fistful of songs from their 2006 debut LP 'Broken Boy Soldiers' , with the highlight existence an extended run through their debut single, and biggest run into, 'Steady, As She Goes'.
The set was:
'Consoler Of The Lonely'
'The Switch And The Spur'
'You Don't Understand Me'
'Top Yourself'
'Old Enough'
'Hold Up'
'Keep It Clean'
'Level'
'Steady, As She Goes'
'Rich Kid Blues'
'Blue Veins'
'Many Sunglasses Of Black'
'Little Marxist Rooster'/'Intimate Secretary'
'Salute Your Solution'
'Carolina Drama'
Now hold in out our sister site Uncut.co.uk's live review of The Raconteurs Jack London gig, which is online now.
The band move on to the Liverpool Carling Honorary society tomorrow (Crataegus laevigata 16) before returning to the UK in the summer for slots at Glastonbury, T In The Park and the Reading and Leeds festivals.
