It’s December, therefore it’s time for the annual Human League gig at
Wolverhampton Civic Hall. Last year it was a straight up set of classic league, from the old through to the new (ish). This time there was a difference, and that difference being the 25th anniversary of their classic slab of electropop ‘Dare’, an album that accompanied many a jaunt through the rainy valleys of Wales on the tape deck of the Skoda Estelle.
Dare, live, sounded fantastic. The beats were crispier and harder, the cheese relatively toned down, and on “seconds” the bass was so intense it bought back memories of Leftfield.
All was about to go to pot though. If you’re going to play a classic album in its entirety (for the first time ever, incidentally), common sense says to play it last. Don’t play any non-classics after the set as they’re going to sound rather pale by comparison. After the Dare set, the league didn’t go pale though, I’d say they turned Albino. Where they should have belted out classics such as ‘Empire State Human’ ‘Circus of Death’ and ‘The Black hit of Space’, we were subjected to the direst of the league back catalogue. Just look at the evidence!
Tell me when
Heart like a wheel
Only Human
(Together in Electric Dreams).
The Lebanon.
Hits granted, but just not cutting the mustard after dare, the only classic pre-dare track aired was a fantastic ‘Being Boiled’. Let’s hope next year the league either play ‘Reproduction’ in it’s entirety, or at least smatter a good deal of older classics through the set.
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