The Blue Room/40 Beak Street, LondonPlaying at the opening of the
London outpost of his label Third Man, the former White Stripes frontman scintillatingly showed rock isn’t dead yet
The swan that flew over Jack White’s new blue hair as he brought this two-part secret show to a close was perhaps an omen that reports of the death of rock’n’roll are premature. Especially as White – playing Seven Nation Army at the time – was stood on a balcony high above an ecstatic bottleneck of people just off Carnaby Street on Saturday night. Naff old Carnaby Street, the place that makes Las Vegas look like Tupelo, may finally have its mojo back. Twenty years since the White Stripes played a famous show at the 100 Club and reinvigorated the capital’s rock music scene, Jack White’s at it again.