10cc – Keswick Theatre – Glenside, PA – September 10, 2025

Last July, 10cc played in the Philly area for the first time in decades. In my review of that show, I closed out with the line: “Seeing 10cc live was a bucket list experience which was worth the wait. Let’s just hope they don’t take another 46 years to come back.”

Turns out we didn’t have to wait again. Just over a year later they are back, so they must have liked being here. We liked having them. This was a similar show to last year; same band lineup, same setlist of songs, but it still rocked. And with years of missing 10cc to make up for, I’m fine with that.

Now, as is almost always the case with bands of a certain era, there is only one member of the original quartet still with the band – Kevin Godley and Lol Creme left the band back in the 1970s heyday and Eric Stewart passed away in 1995.

However, the one guy left is the pretty legendary Graham Gouldman, who not only co-wrote many of 10cc’s biggest, but also co-wrote the rock classics “Bus Stop” by the Hollies, “For Your Love” and “Heart Full of Soul’ by the Yardbirds and “No Milk Today” by Herman’s Hermits.

Their guitarist Rick Fenn and drummer Paul Burgess have also both been with the band since the 1970s. The newer members are multi-instrumentalist Keith Hayman (who has been with the band since 2006) and new kid singer and everything-player Andy Park (who joined the band last year).

The group sounded surprisingly like the original recordings, particularly since 10cc was known so much for their studio experimenting. Who would have thought that they could pull off the shimmering wall-of-sound vocals of “I’m Not in Love” in concert, but dammit if they didn’t.

Other favorites like the bouncy “The Things You Do For Love” and the reggae-tinged “Dreadlock Holiday” (which Gouldman acknowledged from stage was a huge hit everywhere but in America) settled in like a visit from old friends. The band hopped from the gorgeous surrealism of “I’m Mandy, Fly Me” to the wonky culture parody “Art For Art’s Sake” to the hung-over next-day confusion of “Good Morning, Judge” with aplomb.

Now that they have made the leap back across the pond, here’s to hoping that 10cc will make it a habit for years to come.

Jay S. Jacobs

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