Ramone recorded live at his debut solo London show at The Islington Academy on

the 9th October. Tracks from his “Reconquista” and “Last Chance To

Dance” albums were aired along with, naturally, songs from the band that gave

him his surname. I have to tell you the set flowed beautifully and by the end

of his set I didn’t know whether to be happy that I’d just seen a Ramone play

live or sad that I’ll never see The Ramones, or their like, ever again. Support

came from Los Pepes who thanks to the insane amount of roadworks (no it doesn’t)

in the Capital I only caught the bands last two songs and whilst running errands

I almost completely missed CJ’s main UK tour support band The Yorkshire Rats. I

enjoyed what I saw and will be playing something off their debut album on the

next studio show. The special guests for this particular evening were Vice

Squad who kept everyone on the boil before the Main Man, pun intended, strode

onto the stage and asked us “Do You Wanna Dance?” An hour later we still were.