![]() ![]() We were just being young idiots.” He ponders this for a moment. One night we walked off and turned the whole PA into white noise to drive people out of the gig, no encore. He lit the Molotov cocktail, I hurled it over the wall. “The one in Belgium,” Elvis Costello recalls of one night at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels in 1978, when the crowd turned against New York support act Suicide, and he and his band The Attractions took the stage with an unholy vengeance, “we came on with the attitude of ‘f*** you for treating them like that’, played a furious, incoherent 20 minutes and that just tipped everybody right over the edge, then it was a full-on riot. With an almost wistful lilt, the bon vivant of British post-punk reminisces fondly about the riots.
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