The Garage, London Highbury, England

Simply awesome gig advertised in the corner of crap music publication (NME I think). The Ba-Ba's were superb with stuff from the album and all the old Cult Classics, at a venue with a pub atmosphere and a few hundred people going mental and with Mr Astbury at his non-gothic best.

Mark Weaver - thinkppd@dircon.co.uk

What a great small place. Holds what? 200? Couldn't be much more than that. Guess which pillock drove all the way up from Brighton without his ticket? Yep, me. I had to replace it with one purchased from a tout. Not a good start and I missed all the support bands. But what a fantastic gig. I actually have the Holy's album as one of my favourites, so I was always going to enjoy this one. Only one Cult song played - Wild Flower - and somehow that seemed okay... this being the Holy Barbarians and not the Cult after all. Highlight of the night was when I was getting into it with my eyes shut and looked up to see Ian leaning over me (I was right at the front) and he reached over me and touched my hand! (How sad am I?)

Michael Wray - mishwray@actrix.co.nz