The Psychedelic Furs + The Jesus & Mary Chain

A concert in London pairing The Psychedelic Furs with The Jesus and Mary Chain, two British guitar bands whose work grew out of the post-punk and alternative rock scenes of the late 1970s and 1980s.

The Psychedelic Furs were formed in London in 1977 and built their sound around Richard Butler's vocals and the saxophone of Gary Dowd's contemporaries in the early line-up, merging post-punk angularity with a more melodic, atmospheric style. Their best-known songs include "Pretty in Pink", which gave its title to the 1986 film, and "Love My Way". The Jesus and Mary Chain, from East Kilbride in Scotland, were formed in 1983 by the brothers Jim and William Reid. Their debut album, Psychocandy (1985), combined feedback-drenched guitars with pop melodies and drew on the Velvet Underground and the Ramones.

The two bands share a lineage that runs through British alternative rock, and this bill brings together two groups whose influence on the guitar-led music of later decades is widely documented. Neither act's live line-up or repertoire is detailed here, so the evening's running order should be taken as it comes.

The concert takes place at the British Airways ARC, a London venue that hosts live music, and suits listeners who want to hear two long-running bands from the same era on one night.