As part of Virgin's celebration of 40 years Heaven 17 appeared at Koko (the erstwhile Camden Palace) earlier this week.
Support was provided by Scritti Polittie, with Green Gartside in fine voice.
It was an interesting Heaven 17 show. For those of you who don't know, Heaven 17 was formed by Martyn Ware after Phil Oakey split from the Human League. The new vocalist was Glenn Gregory. What made the show interesting was that the first half was drawn exclusively from the first two (pre-split) Human League albums. I am sure some of these songs have never been sung in public. Whilst there is a big difference in style and tone between Glenn and Phil, Glenn's versions were excellent. He even convinced Martyn to take mic and centre stage for Nightclubbing.
Once we moved to the second half of the set we were back in familiar Heaven 17 territory - drawn mostly from Penthouse & Pavement and The Luxury Gap. Sometimes I wish they'd remember all the other albums too!
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