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Saint Etienne/Scritti Politti, Liquid Room, Edinburgh

Questions may be asked about who the real headliners were in this glorious double bill, though in the end it was the songs that mattered.

Seeing Green Gartside's revitalised Scritti Politti live at all is a thrill, even if a bottle of cough medicine is on standby to help Gartside's honeyed tones. Opening with the slow skank of The Sweetest Girl's deconstruction of the love song set the bar high, but, coming so soon after providing the live soundtrack to dancer/choreographer Michael Clarke's latest work, Gartside's four-piece band were happy to go through the Scritti back-catalogue without too much analysis.

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