The British tour of the Strokeswith their last date at London's Hammersmith Apollo. Like good New Yorkers, the Strokes surprisingly played a cover of the band that most influenced the band's last work, First Impressions of Earth. Those present thus enjoyed an inflammatory version à la Strokes of the song 'Life's A Gas' of the great Ramonesintroduced by these words of Julian Casablanca: "Tonight we are doing something new, a tribute to another New York band that I'm sure you also love".
Exceptionally, the unusual live version of the band as a duo was also rehearsed during the evening, when Casablancas on the keyboard and Nick Valensi on guitar performed 'Ask Me Anything‘.
Here is the set list performed :
You Only Live Once
The Modern Age
Hawaii
Juicebox
The End Has No End
12:51
Heart In A Cage
Razorblade
Soma
I Can't Win
Electricityscape
Alone Together
Last Nite
Hard To Explain
Ize Of The World
Trying Your Luck
Life's A Gas
Barely Legal
Ask Me Anything
Vision Of Division
Reptilia
New York City Cops
Someday
Take It Or Leave It
After the two Irish concerts scheduled for tonight and tomorrow, the Strokes will return to the US for their US tour from 1 March to 26 April. If you're wondering when they'll come to Italy again, after last December's stop-and-go at Transilvania in Milan (photo), we don't know yet.
Official website of the band :
www.thestrokes.com
