Jimmy Pursey might be pushing 70 at this point, but the legendary Sham 69 frontman still drips with more no-fucks-given outsider cool than most musicians a third his age. Piling into an utterly rammed Empress Ballroom just as the Friday night beer’s properly begun to flow, there’s an odd mix of punk-rock reverence and hard-partying. With the Surrey legends loosing bangers like Tear Gas Eyes and Angels With Dirty Faces, there isn’t much time to stop and thing about it, though. Perhaps the most striking facet of their endlessly high-energy performance is how true the visceral, gobby dissatisfaction of cuts like Bastille Cake (dedicated to the rioting French), Borstal Breakout and The Clash’s White Riot continues to ring all these decades down the line
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