Frank Black was forced to move a special pre-show set from an outdoor to an indoor venue yesterday because of fears of overcrowding. He's done a couple of these 'pre-core' events of late, and you'll remember that police had to come to the rescue when he did it in Dublin due to overcrowding. Black had been planning to play an acoustic set on the street ahead of his solo NME Awards show gig at Camden's Koko, but the show was moved to The Social because of fears that too many people would turn up and things would get crazy-dangerous.
During the set, Black explained the concept of these 'pre-core' events: "I don't like doing encores, so I thought I'd do an encore before the show".