Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, Shepherd's Bush Empire, 15 February 2011

Great setlisting and arrangements. Very tight band and great instrumentation. Isobel seem to be suffering from a sore throat, but her performance didn't. Voices melded wonderfully live.

Rather charmingly, the guitarist on the right stuck his tongue out when he began the tricky bits of slide playing.

'Circus is Leaving Town' was very good and a real high point of the early part of the set. Also 'Bird in the Wood' (I think) was great. Brooding, hypnotic. Excellent. And 'Something to Believe' - lovely and delicate, and good whistling from Isobel, too!

The set really captivated the audience.  The last section of the set was more uptempo, which got the toes tapping.  Over all the set had a great sound a variety of tone and pace to keep the audience engaged.

I felt really glad that Mark has managed to keep up a career as a singer for so long. It would be a loss to the musical world if he stopped doing interesting music that people wanted to hear enough to allow him to travel the world and play it to lots of people.