You can picture the scene... the Glitter gang in repose, five gravid guts flopped up against their local bar. Dry-roasted nuts or scampi fries?
Hmmm... a stale fog of Old Spice and ennui sours the air as decisions are pondered. And then... "I see Gary's back in the news, boys" one pipes up. "He's got a double-page spread here in the Sun".
Half-interested nods up and down the bar. ''I wonder if now that the Glitter name's hitting the headlines again it might be time to get those spangly jumpsuits sponged-down and get back out there. After all, it looks like Gary won't be needing the songs for a while...''
As brandnames go the Glitter tag surely carries less popular appeal these days. Well that's what you might think but there was 28 people crammed into the Borderline this evening that
might just give you an argument.
The pissed Glaswegian who shouted "Celtic" all through the show aside, what we had here was hard-core, full-on disciples of the Glitter cause and they came here to work up a sweat.
And what a show we saw. The years may not have been too kind to them - and ill-fitting leopard skin goes no way towards disguising that fact either chaps - but boy can they stomp and handclap like men only half their weight.
Opening with the mighty 'Let's Get Together Again' could have horribly backfired being as it is the very best song ever. That the whole thing didn't subsequently just fall apart like a tramp's underpants is testimony to the band's utter class.
'Angel Face' still rocks like the Stretford End on a European night while 'Rock 'n' Roll Parts 1 & 2' remain as greasily primitive and tribal as ever. 'People Like You, People Like Me' was just how we remembered it as well - tragically twee and punchably knock-kneed but hey, even the best have their moments of folly.
So they might now pull in smaller crowds than your average kebab shop on a weekday afternoon but deep down they know that they remain top of the pops. Glam rock really was the best thing since God invented booze and it's time will surely come again. I'd jump on board if I was you. There really is plenty of room for everybody at the moment.
