“Hola or even Hello. Thank you for coming tonight and we hope you enjoy yourselves. One thing I would like to point out, if you are going to smoke that stuff please don’t do it down here by the stage, OK? I’d like to be able to sing for the rest of the tour” says Belew when he’s down El Paso way. You can sympathise with him given that he has to sing his way through Frame By Frame, Dinosaur, and an especially plaintive One Time all in a row. The singer does at least find some respite during a strong run of Vrooom Vrooom and the percussive counterweights of B’Boom. After the wryly syncopated chug of the improvised section of Thrak, the band emerge into the dazzling streets of Neurotica, once again filled with Belew’s prerecorded vocal sample doubling up and set to maximum gabble. The appearance of a Crimson honk, set off by Bruford and continued by Belew, brings big smiles to the faces of the band as they shred the place apart during Indiscipline’s riotous tumult. “What you lack in size you’ve made up for in volume” says an appreciative Ade as they sprint toward the finishing line of LTIA2.
