The Brothers Unconnected
London Tufnell Park Dome
9th May, 2011

Dipping into skits and vexing sores with audience-baiting antics (holocaust denial and global decapitation settling among the evening’s dubious treats), the two remaining Sun City Girls (Alan and Richard Bishop) got dark and goofy paying tribute to their fallen colleague, Charles Gocher, who dismounted from his mortal saddle in 2007. Like the house band for some otherworldly cannibalistic cargo cult, the duo plucked international on their acoustic guitars; traversing Occidental and Orient in their homage to the dead and dying. Between bouts of extended goading, the heroically patient audience copped a crop of Sun City classics, dosing out on quasiraga mantra Space Prophet Dogon (from the group’s peerless Torch Of The Mystics) and the panicky exotica of Nyne De Gris Sung. Playing easy death for cheap laughs, the duo later combed a call for infanticide with hick hymn Six Kids Of Mine, leaving devotees shamefacedly applauding an apology for cot death. It was that kinda night. You get the feeling Gocher, forever the trickster, would’ve been proud.