Sidney Australia’s Hoodoo Gurus came full circle by playing their debut album start to finish 42 years after its release during what will likely be the band’s last visit to Seattle Monday night at the Neptune Theatre.
Dave Faulkner, Brad Sheperd, Richard Grossman, and Nik Rieth treated an amped audience to the entirety of ‘Stoneage Romeos’ followed by a generous selection of hits and deep digs from their lengthy catalog. That the Gurus play with the same passionate intensity four decades after their college radio/indie rock salad days is a thing of wonder and could stand as an inspiring example to other bands that are in it for the long haul.
This fan will continue to hope for a Hoodoo Gurus return to these shores sometime in the future but, if that doesn’t come to pass, they will have bid farewell to America with their guitars blazing, their drums pounding, and their heads held high.