The NME - 1986 Year of the Triffids ? # 3 Lou Reed at The Brixton Academy

 

Don Watsin goes to see Lou Reed at the Brixton Academy and writes his copy. It's a proper slagging. No sacred cows here, Lou is despatched as a lamb at the slaughter. He plays perfunctory versions of the classics; Waiting For The Man, Rock & Roll, Sweet Jane, Walk On The Wid Side et al. But his heart is clearly not in it. His between songs patter minimal. 'I just got one bad habit left and that's playing pinball.' Watsin signs off, 'Put simply he's getting a bit dull these days.' The review is worth the 45p cost of the issue in itself. It's what The NME was for. And why I kept buying .it long after it stopped doing it,