Ezra Furman closes out the Garden Stage on Saturday at End of the Road Festival
Two years after they first blew away unsuspecting audience at End of the Road 2014, Ezra Furman and the Boyfriends triumphantly returned to Larmer Tree Gardens as headliners of the Garden Stage last night.
Introducing himself and his band as "The War On Drugs", Furman launched through his already-formidable back catalogue, which fuses incisive and personal lyrics with a heady mix of doo-wop, punk and old fashioned rock 'n roll. In the midst of his relentlessly effervescent performance, he found time to thank End of the Road and Britain as a whole for their support (although he then noted, tongue-in-cheek, that he "still owes us nothing").
Ending with the punchy, sax-heavy queer anthem "Body Was Made" and a celebratory cover of "Higher and Higher", a giddy Furman collapsed to the floor and was carried off stage by his bandmates, before flinging himself back on for a final reprise of the Jackie Wilson classic.
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