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ALL POINTS EAST Victoria Park, London, May 24–25

is a roughneck amalgam of The Stooges and Rose Tattoo. Singer Amy Taylor was clearly born to do this and carries the show for 40 sweaty minutes with her headbanging, miclead swinging and comic Charles Atlas poses, but furious songs like “Gacked On Anger” and “I’m Not A Loser” are also on-point about minimum-wage poverty and self-worth respectively.

Across the field, a packed tent shifts in anticipation of Jason Pierce, whose whacked-out gospel, drone rock and sun-glazed psychedelia still constitute a profane Eucharist, 30 years on. Seated, he leads through a

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