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# REVIEW: John Grant at the Dome
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/review-john-grant-at-the-dome/
- Published: 2015-11-14T15:04:37.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-14T15:04:55.000Z
- Description: Last night Grant played an impressive set showcasing material from his latest album, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure. It’s a work I’ve been having some difficulty with – some of the lyrics are maybe a tad arch – but seeing him live won me over.
- Author: Michael Hootman
- Tags: Arts, Music, Reviews, Brighton Dome, Michael Hootman

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**Last night Grant played an impressive set showcasing material from his latest album, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure.** It’s a work I’ve been having some difficulty with – some of the lyrics are maybe a tad arch – but seeing him live won me over. Even lines like ‘*You and Hitler ought to get together/You ought to learn to knit and wear matching sweaters’* work when sung with such gleeful bitterness.

A lot of musical ground is covered, from the funk of *Voodoo Doll* to the Torch Song-esque *Caramel* to the Grace Jones-inspired *Snug Slacks*. My own favourite Grant track, *Marz*, is one of the best songs of the last few years and it gets a knock-out rendition: it’s one of those tracks which makes me feel almost woozy every time I hear it. It’s other-worldly, ethereal and easily the best song to list the names of various candies since the Beatles’ *Savoy Truffle*.

When you think of Grant you tend to think of angst, and his beautiful, heart-breaking work like the transcendent *Glacier* – wait, maybe that’s my favourite Grant track. Or perhaps it’s *GMF* which is making me choke up even as I write this. Anyway, my point is that he can also be incredibly playful and very funny. *Snug Slacks* is the kind of track which makes you laugh and dance at the same time, ‘*You know it takes as ass like yours to make it possible for me/To have developed such a very high tolerance for inappropriate behaviour*’. Its knowing sense of its absurdity taken with the lubriciousness of the rest of the lyrics make it one of the greatest queer songs since Jagger’s *Memo From Turner*.

[For tour dates click here.](http://johngrantmusic.com/tour-dates-2/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)