Tortoise, Low, Morricone Play Don't Look Back

It's a simple concept: take a respected band and get them to stage one of their defining albums in its allness. Everyone's a sucker for nostalgia and, moreover, when you know what you're gonna get, there's no whining about songs not played.

Last year, the All Tomorrow's Parties "Don't Look Back" series of concerts featured such highlights as Belle and Sebastian returning to their debut album If You're Feeling Sinister (later released as a live set) and the reunited Stooges tearing the Hammersmith Apollo audience a new one by playing Funhouse in its entirety.

This year's set of "Don't Look Back" shows kicks off tomorrow night with paisley underground vets Green on Red performing their 1985 album Gas Food Lodging, and continues throughout the rest of the year with various shows around London. Other participants include Tortoise, Low, Tindersticks, Isis, and legendary film composer Ennio Morricone running through a collection of his soundtrack work, including music from Once Upon a Time in America, The Legend of 900, The Mission, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, A Fistful of Dynamite, Cinema Paradiso, The Untouchables, Novecento, I Promessi Sposi, The Red Tent, and Canone Inverso.

Kinda makes Millions Now Living Will Never Die seem like a minor accomplishment, doesn't it?

Don't look back, look here:

07-18 KOKO - Green on Red performing Gas Food Lodging *
07-21 KOKO - Girls Against Boys performing Venus Luxure No 1 Baby +
07-23 KOKO - Isis performing Oceanic =
07-24 The Forum - Teenage Fanclub performing Bandwagonesque @
07-25 KOKO - Tortoise performing Millions Now Living Will Never Die #
07-26 KOKO - Low performing Things We Lost in the Fire &
07-27 KOKO - Low performing Things We Lost in the Fire !
09-11 Barbican - John Martyn performing Solid Air
09-17 Barbican - Tindersticks performing Tindersticks II
12-01 Hammersmith Apollo - Ennio Morricone performing his film soundtracks $
12-02 Hammersmith Apollo - Ennio Morricone performing his film soundtracks $

* with Gravenhurst
+ with Ligament + 3HOS
^ with Final
@ with Bevis Frond
# with Clark
& with Bat for Lashes
! with Fionn Regan
$ with Gyor Philharmonic Orchestra and Crouch End Festival Chorus