Gig review: The Wailers, Glasgow
The Wailers - ABC, Glasgow
* * *
Fortunately, the music was fresh and fragrant enough to mask the smell of Bob-as-brand, as The Wailers worked their way through greatest hits compilation Legend – the best-selling reggae album of all time – in its entirety.
Frontman Koolant Brown has big shoes to fill. Wisely, he didn’t try to match up to Marley but, even though the songs were the stars here and the crowd needed little encouragement to sing along with such a classic setlist, he could still have projected more spirit in his performance.
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Hide AdBacking vocalist Cegee Victory acquitted her role deputising for Marley’s Three I’s with sweet serenity.
Though her fellow musicians were not the most vibrant performers, the show was studded with moments to cherish such as the beautiful, lyrical guitar work from Audley Chisholm on Waiting In Vain which hardly needed the brief call-and-response mash-up with Tina Turner’s What’s Love Got To Do With It? to enhance its story.