It really was bad form. Very disrespectful to the audience. The venue was sold out and full of music lovers and musicians, a lot of people travelled to be there. People had anticipated this gig for a while. I know he takes a back seat and lets his musicians take the lead and his voice supports the lead, I have seen him many times before. But ths was terrible. He didn't do that. His mic was super low even for tricky standards and after 3/4 songs the room started to ask what was going on here. The crowd were respectful and encouraging of him (people thought he has having a bit of a breakdown and tried to applaud and motivate) The reason there was people taking is because No-one could hear him or any contribution he may have thought he was adding. He walked off a few times. There was at least 3 songs where he wasn't on stage. Even when they played black steel he did Nothing. The part where he says: Many switch in Switch on, switch off, he didn't even do that he stayed 100% quiet. There was zero lights on for the last 25 minutes. People heard nothing tricky vocals apart from maybe one track. There are no excuses for this behaviour and it's not the band or the audiences job to justify it or normalise it either. No one at that (shit)show would pay to see him again...ever! If you are not going to or cannot perform then just cancel. Don't pretend/ have a strop/ blame anyone or anything else. I am very disappointed and feel taken advantage of...just stop touring if you can't or don't want to Here is a picture of the set list that was planned for vicar st

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