Chrissie Hynde, Alison Mosshart, and more pay tribute to late Screaming Trees singer following what would have been his 60th birthday
Josh Homme, Dave Gahan, Chrissie Hynde, and Greg Dulli were among the friends and collaborators who paid tribute to the late Mark Lanegan at a London concert on Thursday, marking what would have been the singer’s 60th birthday.
Alison Mosshart, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, Ed Harcourt, the Soulsavers, and Troy Van Leeuwen also took part in the memorial show at London’s Roundhouse, which featured 30 songs from Lanegan’s 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 stage following his own health issues — performing “Carnival,” a highlight from Lanegan’s Whiskey for the Holy Ghost, and Depeche Mode’s Gahan — who opened the concert with a four-song set of Lanegan tracks — tackling “Kingdoms of Rain” off that same album.
The Pretenders’ Hynde led the backing band Soulsavers on a pair of Lanegan ballads (“Kimiko’s Dream House” and “Halcyon Daze”) along with the Screaming Trees deep cut “Revelator.”
The concert concluded with the artists involved linking up onstage for a three-song encore of Screaming Trees’ “Dollar Bill,” Soulsavers’ “Revival,” and Lanegan’s own “Hit the City.”
The one-night-only tribute concert was staged in conjunction with the singer’s family and the Mark Lanegan Foundation. Lanegan, the beloved Screaming Trees frontman and prolific solo artist, died in February 2022 after a long battle with long Covid.
Recently, a 20th anniversary reissue of Lanegan’s 2004 album Bubblegum was released, featuring an unheard collaboration with Beck along with other unreleased tracks from that LP’s sessions.
