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Scotsman
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Sparks, Edinburgh review: 'a delightful deep-dive of a concert'
Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Beloved brotherly duo Sparks have released so many albums over the last 55 years that, at one point during this delightful deep dive of a concert, younger sibling Russell needed to draw on their audience's encyclopedic knowledge in the finer points of their chronology. Russell and Ron Mael are both now in their late-70s – though looking, acting and performing much younger – yet have never rested on laurels. Sparks PIC: Munachi Osegbu The art of the album is still what drives them and they have a new offering, Mad!, to show off. As to the rest of the set, well that is half the fun (and, occasionally, frustration) of a Sparks set – you never quite know where they will roam in their vast catalogue for inspiration. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad It took them 50 years to write an obvious curtain raiser so now they're gonna use it. Following a pause to soak in the enthusiastic and respectful applause, they launched with So May We Start, from their movie musical Annette. To which the only reply can be: Absolutely. Next, they warmed up with the staccato rhyming couplets of recent single Do Things My Own Way. But it quickly transpired that the duo were in a Seventies frame of mind, excavating the light rock opera of Reinforcements, klezmer stomp of Goofing Off and, best of all, rocking out with their ace four-piece backing band on the beefy power pop of Whippings And Apologies from their second album A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing.
Scotsman
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Sparks at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 2025: Here are 16 amazing pictures of the gig
Sparks made a triumphant return to Glasgow last night (Tuesday, June 24), playing the city's Royal Concert Hall. They played a 20 song career-spanning set, including five songs from critically-acclaimed new album Mad!. The sold out crowd were treated to a string of hits, including the iconic This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us. Sparks will be back in Scotland on Friday, July 18, for a concert at Edinburgh's Playhouse. You can buy tickets here. Here are 16 pictures of the memorable night. Sparks played: So May We Start Do Things My Own Way Reinforcements Academy Award Performance Goofing Off Beat the Clock Please Don't Fuck Up My World Running Up a Tab at the Hotel for the Fab Suburban Homeboy All You Ever Think About Is Sex Drowned in a Sea of Tears JanSport Backpack Music That You Can Dance To When Do I Get to Sing "My Way" The Number One Song in Heaven This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us Whippings and Apologies Lord Have Mercy The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte All That 1 . New material Sparks are touring in support of latest album 'Mad!'. | David Hepburn Photo Sales 2 . Opener The band opened with 'So May We Start' from the soundtrack to movie Annette. | David Hepburn Photo Sales 3 . This is a new one Sparks played five songs from their latest album. | David Hepburn Photo Sales 4 . Sell outs The show was the first one to sell out on their UK tour. | David Hepburn Photo Sales Related topics: TicketsScotlandGlasgowConcerts
