15 Nov 2026, 11:01 PM

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Ulster Hall, BelfastWith two sets of fathers and sons now in the group, as they play all of Moseley Shoals on its 30th anniversary, the indie stalwarts have aged into seismic and soulful performers‘It’s only 30 years ago,” Simon Fowler says of Moseley Shoals. He would seem to mean it, but 30 years makes Ocean Colour Scene’s breakthrough album as old now as Revolver was when they were making it. The band once derided for raiding the 60s are now heritage themselves. They open the album’s anniversary tour on the stage where Led Zeppelin first played Stairway to Heaven, and you can’t help but appreciate the lineage.They walk on to Green Onions, fresh from the Crown Bar, and open with You’ve Got It Bad, all supreme Motown stomp. Fowler sings with a hand in his pocket and looks taken aback by the welcome. The casualness is a conduit: his voice has aged into something close to peak Joe Cocker, grained at the edges, honey underneath. Lining Your Pockets is more resounding than ever. Continue reading...

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