Echo & The Bunnymen play ‘Crocodiles’ and ‘Heaven Up Here’ in their entirety.

Good news! For the first time in Belgium, Echo & The Bunnymen will play their first two albums in their entirety : 'Crocodiles' and 'Heaven Up Here' . Frontman/singer Ian McCulloch – modest as ever – about this: “It would be a masterclass for anyone who's ever been in a band that isn't quite as good as the band I'm in" (sic).

Echo & The Bunnymen play ‘Crocodiles’ (1980)
‘Crocodiles’ - canned in barely three weeks - is Echo & The Bunnymen's debut album and it has now crossed counters more than 100,000 times to date. Rolling Stone gave the album a **** review at the time. NME block-lettered back then: “probably the best album this year by a British band". There were two singles drawn from the album: (their debut single) ‘The Pictures on My Wall’ and the classic ‘Rescue’. It landed in Uncut's ‘100 most impressive debut albums’ chart in '06. When the album was re-released in ’04, the influential Pitchfork praised them with high honours (8.2 out of 10).
Trivia: in ‘01 American singer-songwriter Kelley Stoltz released the album ‘Crock O Dials’, a complete make over of ‘Crocodiles’ .

Echo & The Bunnymen play ‘Heaven Up Here’ (1981)
‘Heaven Up Here’ is the second album by Echo & The Bunnymen, released in 1981. It was the first album by the band to make it into the Top 10 in their homeland and it also provided them with their breakthrough in America. Mojo threw a ***** review at it and Q congratulated the album with ****. NME described the album as "one of the most superior articulations of 'rock' form in living memory." The album accommodated two singles: ‘A Promise’ and ‘Over the Wall’. Rolling Stone later placed it in their ‘500 Greatest Albums of All Time’ chart. Pitchfork later gave the re-issue a fine 8.0/10 and NME placed it in their Top 100 ‘Greatest Albums of All Time’.