Nouvelle Vague Celebrate Their 20th Anniversary at Liverpool’s Cavern Club [Show Review]

Nouvelle Vague are 20 this year and celebrating in style. With a startlingly brilliant new album, Should I Stay or Should I Go?, just released and new vocalists on board, the band is midway through an extensive tour and kindly stopped off at The Cavern to share their continental charms with Liverpool. What started as (what could have been considered) a novelty project with high production values two decades ago quickly gained a cult following, and the band has been churning out increasingly experimental releases ever since. The premise was simple: cover versions of new wave hits in a Bossa Nova/Paris Café style. Their self-titled debut was a revelation, breathing new life into songs by The Cure, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, PIL and The Clash. So cool was the album’s execution that it never ...

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