Echo and the Bunnymen people are Strange

"Nothing can compare to getting applause inside your home town."

Ian McCulloch surely couldn't have expected other things in a Liverpool gig, but every clap and holler was completely deserved throughout an electrical Echo &lifier the Bunnymen performance in a packed Philharmonic Hall.

Entering their 37th year in the industry with 12 albums for their title, the Bunnymen understand how it is performed and demonstrated it all over again.

They given off an adoring audience to thrilling impact on an unforgettable evening that will have surely pleased diehard fans and without doubt gained newer and more effective ones.

It had been a good, fast start because the band came away from the blocks with Crocodiles and Save, then Villiers Terrace segued right into a lowdown and dirty Roadhouse Blues.

McCulloch's fiery rasp turned into a far more tender, searching croon because the pace slowed down with Meteorites in the group's newest release, prior to the crowd rose as you for old favourite Seven Seas and remained on their own ft before the final chord from the evening.

Ian McCulloch of Echo &lifier The Bunnymen in the Phil. Pic: Dork Munn

Bed bugs and Ballyhoo was shipped having a scrumptious Doorways-esque swagger, whetting hunger for any further taste from the real factor because the Bunnymen folded directly into an easy cover of individuals Are Strange.

Mac praised Will Sergeant as "the finest guitarist everInch also it appeared completely justified as he cooked up a psychedelic storm on the blistering Within The Wall, peppering it with thunderous flashes of lead guitar.

McCulloch asked a singalong for Cause The Dancing Horses - "the 4th finest song ever written" in the words - prior to the primary set came to some close with triumphant assumes The Killing Moon and also the Cutter, each of which must clearly rank even greater in Mac's musical pecking order.

The Bunnymen came back to the level for free Lasts Forever - meandering through Walk around the Wild Side (throughout which McCulloch could not resist switching it to "go for a walk on Merseyside"), Don't Allow Me Lower as well as in The Night time Hour along the way - as well as an extended Lips Like Sugar.

Your final encore saw McCulloch and co sign served by Sea Rain, an excellent finish to a different happy homecoming.