Originally published by The Birmingham Mail. June 2008.

Despite only releasing two albums in the early 1980’s, Yazoo have caught the spirit of the times and reformed for long-overdue shows.

Opening the evening with the chilling Nobody’s Diary, Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke treated a capacity crowd to a night of near perfection with Moyet’s sultry, smokey blues voice harking back to a time when Space Invaders were all the rage and electro pop  ruled the airwaves.

With classics like Mr. Blue, Ode to Boy and an excellent version of In My Room, the evening went by far too quickly.

Even the instrumental piece had the audience laughing as they synthesizer did not work and Clarke and Moyet went off stage for a rest.

Don’t Go only made the crowd realise what they had been missing for 25 years and the classic Only You rounded it all off.

Ian D. Hall