SATURDAY evening's Scarborough Open Air show offered a great line up of Gaz Coombes of Supergrass, The Charlatans and the legendary Johnny Marr performing. As value for money goes it really can't get much better. Coombes was on stage at 6.
30pm providing a short but fine set which included the Supergrass songs Caught by The Fuzz and Moving, and some solo tracks including Deep Pockets and Detroit. At the previous night's show Johnny Marr came on second with The Charlatans topping the bill. In Scarborough they reversed position with Tim Burgess and The Charlatans coming on stage at 7.
30pm and providing a 75-minute set that encompassed their career with many highlights along the way. Opening with Then and Can't Get Out of Bed they got their set off to a great start. Two songs, Crashin' In and Opportunity got rare outings having not been played for close to ten years until being dusted off this week.
They were real crowd pleasers for sure. Burgess is one of those singers that looks like every show is a career high spot, with wide grin never far from his face. North Country Boy was wonderful to hear, but the place erupted when Johnny Marr came out to join the band on Weirdo, trading riffs with The Charlatans Mark Collins.
After Burgess released Marr from his embrace the band closed their set with The Only One I know and an epic performance of Sproston Green. After a quick changeover by the crew it was Johnny Marr's turn for the spotlight. Marr formerly of The Smiths is one of the m.