The footplate is a dance floor on which Pete hops and jerks like a furious Pinocchio, looking to remonstrate with whichever gormless Geppetto cut him loose in this world.…

He’s probably lost some of the casual Soft Cell fans for whom his immersion in drug culture and S&M dungeons is a bit too dark. Indeed I’d venture that for the vast majority of devotees here tonight, their only encounter with opium has been from a perfume bottle.…