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Scissor Sisters review – effervescent maximalism from 00s glam-pop freaksters
Decked out in bedazzled denim and surrounded by inflatable body parts, the US band sound as thrillingly absurd on this reunion tour as when they brightened up the charts the first time around
More than twenty years after their self-titled debut album rocketed them from New York’s queer cabarets to household-name status in the UK, the band tumble from the shadows – effervescent frontman Jake Shears in bedazzled denim, cool-headed guitarist Del Marquis, and PVC-clad multi-instrumentalist Babydaddy – and the bawdy, stabbing synths of early single Laura pull a sold-out crowd to their feet. Photograph: Carsten Windhorst/Camera PressAn irreverent reworking of classic and glam rock, disco and psychedelia with a vinegary end-of-the-pier humour, the Scissor Sisters album is nine-times platinum in the UK, where the band’s freaky theatricality found a spiritual home. From the impossibly falsetto cover of Comfortably Numb to the spiky surrealism of Tits on the Radio, so powerful is the band’s magnetism that electropop legend Alison Goldfrapp performs as support, and disco queen Jessie Ware gallops from the wings to scream “Do it!!
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