Spear of Destiny at JPC Stowmarket May 2025
Spear of Destiny, Janus Tour 2025 John Peel Centre for The Arts, Stowmarket - 1st May 2025 The impossibly handsomest boy of the post-punk scene was looking positively cherubic as he took the stage to plug in his lead at The John Peel Centre on May Day 2025. The young man who looked like the son of a Greek God in 1983 is 68 years old now and he’s still looking good, the hair curl still with us. Kirk Brandon ’s Spear of Destiny are back to a six-piece band, he’s still got his big guitar, a grand piano of a guitar, there’s the saxophone blended into the constant guitar ( as found on The Stooges second album Funhouse, released in 1970) , the slightly incongruous ‘muso’ lead guitar, the keyboards and the rhythm section, the driving force of this show. The crowd, standing (thank goodness) are an assortment of the committed, the curious and the ambivalent. T-shirts on show include Spear of Destiny’s latest promoting Janus - the new recording...