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At £20 per ticket, this event deserved a better sound system, but overhearing an earnest debate on who performed the original “Burning Down The House” – Talking Heads or Tom Jones? was worth the price of admission alone. Tony Allen of course played on neither version, but as Brian Eno pointed out in his introduction, 
I had the immense pleasure of seeing this man live tonight – Mr Tony Allen, the co-founder of Afrobeat and Fela Kuti’s former drummer. Although I arrived late to the show, the rhythms got me grooving immediately and the strains of the week fell off lik…

