WHEN a band is touring a new album they have a tough choice to make - do they play new songs and promote the album or give the audience all their old favourites?Read
BASSIST Norman Watt-Roy does not go in for all that two set stuff, he told the audience at the Garrick, so it was a straight 90 minute set, ending with a long Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick.Read
WITH Arctic temperatures outside and a muted atmosphere inside the draughty, cavernous, not quite full NIA it seemed that The Beach Boys faced an uphill struggle to bring some Californian sunshine to Birmingham.Read