Echo and the Bunnymen – Ian McCulloch leaves it to the crowd to sing these timelessly great songs

Echo and the Bunnymen – Ian McCulloch leaves it to the crowd to sing these timelessly great songs

02 Academy, Leeds The frontman struggled to get through most of the band’s choruses but that left space for Will Sergeant’s glorious psychedelic shapes and a supportive singalong Ian McCulloch once cheekily described the Bunnymen as “the greatest band in the world, the greatest songs in the history of time and the greatest singer”, although you’d be hard pushed to find evidence of the latter at this show. Things begin promisingly enough with the darkly powerful Going Up and All That Jazz fro...

By Dave Simpson