The 1990s had returned to Glasgow last night with those ancient student unions and indie clubs pouring forth their revenants into a chill October evening. Pavement were back at the Barrowlands for the first time since 1999. I was there in 1999 and I was there in Barcelona in 2010 and I was there last night. Pavement seemed even more present than they were on those distant dates. They were tight, energetic and apparently enjoying themselves.
They played 26 songs, 7 of which I would describe as the MTV pop hits. Those bangers were delivered well and enjoyed by the crowd. I own all the Pavement albums although I haven’t listened to some of them for several years. Most of the songs were familiar but there were a couple I didn’t recognise. At times they mimicked Neu and the Fall. They fell apart in the middle of one song for the second time on the tour.
Pavement are a great band and it was good to see them again. I believe that if they had desired it more at the time they could have been massive. They could have been bigger than Nirvana with true pop hits but that was not their road. The road they picked was right for them and right for the Barrowlands last night as the spirit of the 1990s was manifest again,
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