The Kills’ Alison Mosshart reflects on Mark Lanegan tribute show: “A lightening bolt evening of love and adoration”

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The Kills‘ Alison Mosshart has reflected on the star-studded Mark Lanegan tribute show that took place last week.Mosshart along with the likes of Queens Of The Stone Age‘s Josh Homme, Depeche Mode‘s Dave Gahan, Primal Scream‘s Bobby Gillespie, Chrissie Hynde and many more all took part in a tribute show in honour and celebration of the late former Screaming Trees frontman, QOTSA collaborator, grunge icon and solo pioneer’s 60th birthday at London’s Roundhouse back on December 5.The ‘Future Starts Slow’ singer took to her official Instagram account and shared an image carousel featuring photos of the night.

Reflecting on the show a week later (last night, December 5), Mosshart wrote: “It’s taken me a week a digest this gig and I still feel dizzy.

It was such a lightening bolt evening of love and adoration for Mark, for Marks music, for the magical realm of music itself.

I can’t remember a time ever being so nervous to perform. 6 pages of lyrics whirling in my head, rehearsals, pacing, singing days on end, my attempt to fully fall deep into the lyrics, marks mind, to sing them without thinking, to let them fly unencumbered through me, without falling down.”A post shared by Alison Mosshart (@amosshart)She revealed that she stood at the side of the stage and watched Bobbie Gillespie “rip into Marks songs without any hesitation, as I ripped into my drink, trembling”, before going up to perform alongside guitarists James Walbourne and Troy Van Leeuwen, adding that she doesn’t remember anything else.“The 4 songs I sang just happened… just as I prayed… without thinking, just boom out of the canon.