THERE seems to have been a trend recently for eighties bands to tour, performing their ‘classic’ albums. The Human League did it a while back with ‘Dare,’ and recently Saint Etienne revived ‘Foxbase Alpha.’ Currently, it’s the turn of eighties goth rockers The Cult to wheel out the seminal ‘Love ‘album. The band will probably be best remembered for their mega hit ‘She Sells Sanctuary,’ and when the album was played at Wolverhampton Civic Hall that certainly got the biggest cheer. But there are plenty of other memorable hits on the album, most notably ‘Revolution,’ ‘Rain,’ ‘The Phoenix,’ and ‘Brother Wolf, Sister Moon.’ Back in the mid-eighties The Cult were a breath of fresh air, managing to fuse a range of styles, to produce something that was really quite different and original. Ian Astbury is blessed with an amazing voice, probably the reason two of the surviving members of The Doors got him to be their surrogate Jim Morrision, when they reformed the band a couple of years ago. Billy Duffy, his chief collaborator in The Cult, is one of those guitar players who is a joy to watch, and listen too. The band sounded exceptionally tight and well-rehearsed, and had a great sound in Wolverhampton – far better than when I saw them on a recent comeback tour elsewhere. The place was packed, and they went down a storm. | 
