They ripped through it with conviction, erasing any pre-gig concerns that this would be a band simply going through the motions. Those wonderful pop melodies nestling up beside the brutish jagged frenzy they would regularly unleash throughout the night. It was after a cover of Neil Young's Winterlong that they first brought the ruckus. With a maniacal laugh punctuating the lyric Black Francis sung, "I hope everything is alriiiight," as the band pummelled their way through Mr Grieves. They were off again with the rest of the song before hurtling straight into Nimrod's Son without pausing for breath.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 12, 2017 00:22 UTC