Had Bad Company not written the ultimate, thrusting anthem of horny, red-blooded machismo in the โFeel Like Making Loveโ, Dunedin band Mother Goose may never have felt the need to lampoon its moves with the feeble โFeel Like Making Sconesโ.
On this 2010 reunion, the group, improbably, perform like theyโre on fire: tanned and gym-shaped vocalist Paul Rodgers bawls like a rhino, and the famous heaviosity of the groupโs hard-rock/blues fusion is barely diminished.
Deeply unsettling, however, is the illusion that Wembley Stadium is crammed full of bellowing Homer Simpsons. GARY STEEL
Music = 3/5
Sound = 4/5
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