Few performers divide their fans as much as Thundercat. None disputes that the double Grammy award-winner is a bass guitar god, or that his albums are works of art. Live, however, he is musical Marmite.
The issue? Supposed self-indulgence. Like Bob Dylan for decades, the Compton-born 39-year-old beloved by Kendrick Lamar, Erykah Badu and Ariana Grande reinvents his songs on stage. Jazz improvisation, his admirers call it. Others arrive hoping to howl along and leave outraged.
In Glasgow to launch his latest UK tour, Thundercat was on frivolous form. He strode on in fits of giggles for no obvious reason, wearing flares and clutching a bass so big that its neck towered above him. His familiar, growling feline logo was the backdrop, its eyes intermittently
