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Sugar review – Bob Mould’s reunited band still in a sweet spot between noise and melody

O2 Kentish Town Forum, London
After three unlikely Top 10 albums in the 90s, the trio are back – and on the basis of this rapid-fire set, you hope they’ll stick around

Bob Mould has never seemed to have much interest in looking back. The bridges to a Hüsker Dü reunion were burned long before drummer and songwriter Grant Hart died in 2017; the notion that Mould might revive Sugar, the band who scored three unlikely UK Top 10 albums of ferocious alt-rock in the mid-90s, seemed ridiculous. But here we are: after three New York shows, Mould, David Barbe and Malcolm Travis are touring the UK and Ireland.

Some things have changed: the seething sea of moshers at 90s shows is now a placid lake of the nodding middle-aged. Travis, 73, seems to drum with the minimum amount of movement possible, wisely given the searing heat inside the Forum. Others haven’t: JC Auto, which closes the main set, remains brutal and churning, thrillingly intense. Mould still stomps in circles around the stage like a man furiously searching for his lost remote control.

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May 25, 2026 Pop and rock Indie Music

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