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Positive review of the solo concert at a well-attended Garage on Thursday (10.04.1997): Leven sits on a monitor rather than on the chair and, between poetic minor-key ballads, tells coarse, at times hysterically funny stories; the recurring themes are boys who become hard men, images from the Scottish Highlands and love under poor conditions. Played were, among others, “Stranger on the Square” and “Young Male Suicide Blessed by Invisible Woman”. Leven remarks that the audience is much quieter than last time; he announces his return with Doll by Doll in late summer and names the sister album “Injured Women: The Jackie Leven Report”.