Black Lips at The Music Room

Black Lips personified would be a prodigal teenager: scruffy, unreliable, but full of naïve ideals and impassioned energy. Playing at The Music Room, every song lurched into being with the coordination of a dizzy buffoon. However there were moments of pure, blissed-out rock’n’roll, and elegant panache a million miles from Dubai’s cover band scene, washing an eerie sense of fraternity across the assembled crowd.