Josh Homme,Dave Gahan,Chrissie Hynde, and Greg Dulli were among the friends and collaboratorswho paid tribute to the lateMark Laneganata London concertonThursday, marking what would have been the singers 60th birthday.
Alison Mosshart, Primal Screams Bobby Gillespie, Ed Harcourt, the Soulsavers, and Troy Van Leeuwen also took part in the memorial show at Londons Roundhouse, which featured 30 songs from Lanegans catalog, spanning his Screaming Trees track to his solo work and side projects.
Among the many highlights from the evening included Homme who occasionally featured Lanegan in Queens of the Stone Age and was returning to the stagefollowing his own health issues performing Carnival, a highlight from LanegansWhiskey for the Holy Ghost, and Depeche Modes Gahan who opened the concert with a four-song set of Lanegan tracks tackling Kingdoms of Rain off that same album.
Josh Homme and Dave Gahan perform during the ‘Mark Lanegan 60 A Celebration’Ki Price/WireImage
The Pretenders Hynde led the backing band Soulsavers on a pair of Lanegan ballads (Kimikos Dream House and Halcyon Daze) along with the Screaming Trees deep cut Revelator.
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The one-night-only tribute concert was staged in conjunction with the singers family and the Mark Lanegan Foundation.
Lanegan, the beloved Screaming Trees frontman and prolific solo artist,diedin February 2022 after a long battle with long Covid.
Recently,a 20th anniversary reissue of Lanegans 2004 albumBubblegumwas released, featuring an unheard collaboration with Beck along with other unreleased tracks from that LPs sessions.
