I booked a ticket for my twenty-year-old Nephew as surprisingly for a youth of these times; he loves music from the 1960s, especially the Beatles. Echo and the Bunnymen formed in a post Punk era, and they competed with New Romantics such as Duran Duran and Synthesiser music from the Human League, Depeche Mode and many more. The band were a four-piece guitar group when they began akin to the Beatles. Although Echo and the Bunnymen have not achieved the same recognition as John, Paul, George and Ringo, Ian's lyrics are every bit as powerful and meaningful. The melodies supporting the words are superbly played with passion by Will, imprinting themselves in your head, so your mind tingles when the first string is strung.
When the band walked on stage, and the oh so familiar guitar sound started, I was taken back to the Brighton Centre, where I first saw the band. The O2 Academy is an intimate venue, and the band could be seen from anywhere on the floor; even though I stood by the sound desk, I felt I was close to them. The songs I listened to on my Walkman repeatedly as a Teenager flowed one after another, and I was dancing away. I looked over, and my Nephew was too, before he said, "I am going to the front; this is superb." I was delighted he shared my passion for the lads from Liverpool. An hour sped by as about twenty songs were performed as if it were 1982 and the beginning of Echo and the Bunnymen's journey. My only disappointment was that the experience could not have lasted longer, but it has in my memories.