Jane’s Addiction
The Great Escape Artist
EMI Records
17 October 2011
by Dan Pelic
When asked to review The Great Escape Artist, I was also offered the supposed real reason for the band’s last-minute cancellation at Reading — Dave Navarro’s horror in taking the stage to a near-empty tent while the sonic atrocity that is The Strokes were performing on the main stage. Apparently, right then and there, Mr Perry Farrell’s vocal cords decided to give way not only for that evening, but their subsequent performance at Leeds. *sniff sniff*
I guess we’re obliged to forgive them since they’re rock stars?