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A boa constrictor is brought onstage for ‘Snakebite’ – personally, we’d takes over the spotlight for a drum solo, while Nita later begins her own
prefer it wasn’t used - we’re not a fan of animals being used for enter- solo at the top of a staircase, before Tommy and Ryan add to it. The mem-
tainment purposes. This is soon forgotten when 1971’s ‘Be My Lover’ bers are all masters of their craft and make their instruments sound out-
takes over. ‘He’s Back (The Man Behind The Mask)’ and ‘Hey Stoopid’ standing.
see some theatrical ‘actors’ run onto the stage, holding cameras, taking Alice is strapped into a straitjacket for the ‘Ballad Of Dwight Fry’. The
photos of Alice, as a fan, and a member of the paparazzi, closely followed one-and-a-half-hour set, of course, includes Alice’s famous guillotine sec-
by men in masks. There’s a rainy backdrop for ‘Welcome To My Night- tion of the show, where his head appears to be chopped off in the guillo-
mare’, while ‘Cold Ethyl’ sees Alice singing to, and throwing around, a re- tine, and his wife Sheryl appears on stage. ‘Feed My Frankenstein’
alistic, but very limp (i.e. slightly dead), life-size doll. includes a towering Frankenstein character, which stalks zombie-like be-
One of the biggest cheers comes for fan favourite ‘Poison’, which al- hind the musicians.
ways sounds fantastic. Glen Sobel, with white war paint on his cheeks,

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