The Handsome Family: Live at The Barbican, London
Gavin Martin, Uncut, January 2002
RENNIE SPARKS looks like a deep sea diver plucked out of water as she accompanies her husband on the miraculous 'Weightless Again'. There's a tube in her mouth, attached to her keyboard. Has no one told her about the dental disaster that followed Peter Frampton's use of a similar gizmo in his Seventies? In years to come, will they have to rename this song 'Toothless Again'?
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