Jack White / Band Of Horses Live Review

Seattle's Band of Horses opened the night with new single Rome track Two Against One early standouts.

One of the most captivating guitarists around, White was his usual live-wire self, jerking and strutting around the stage like Prince after too much coffee.

By the time the band finished playing the title track from White's solo album Blunderbuss they'd already given the crowd a fantastic show, and then something even more exciting happened…

As White and vocalist Ruby Amanfu performed their duet Love Interruption, his male band gradually left the stage to be replaced by the ladies in a deceptively simple piece of stagecraft, all without missing a beat.

The Peacocks then continued as White's band for the rest of the evening, and helped bring across the more bluegrass elements of tracks such as Take Me With You When You Go and Hotel Yorba.

Ending the mammoth 25 song set with a surprise blast through Seven Nation Army, White and his bands took a well deserved bow, and it's hard to imagine how they could have done more.

Gavin Cullen

Jack White's Roundhouse Set List:

with Los Buzzardos

Black Math
Missing Pieces
Sixteen Saltines
Wasting My Time
I Cut Like A Buffalo
Hello Operator
Two Against One
Blunderbuss

with The Peacocks

Love Interruption
Hotel Yorba
Top Yourself
Hypocritical Kiss
Cannon
Broken Boy Soldier
We're Going to Be Friends
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Take Me With You When You Go
I'm Slowly Turning Into You
Screwdriver
Blue Blood Blues
Ball and Biscuit
 
encore

Steady, As She Goes
The Hardest Button to Button
Freedom at 21
Seven Nation Army