Soulwax, Zutons and LCD at Brixton

Fringey met up in the 'Living' Bar and ordered a couple of double vodkas, forgot about the non-happy hour prices and the extra large measures, so was £18 for a two person round!! Which we did twice! We were quite merry when we finally got to the Academy.

Soulwax were brilliant, just as we thought they might be! Properly intense angry dancy rock. The stage lighting was minimal, so the Academy actually felt quite intimate and club like, and was a very friendly (pilled up) crowd. Wasn’t sold out, so plenty of room to dance, and we wandered right up to the barrier at one point - just because we could!!

The Zutons were surprisingly good, far better than their album lets on and looked like they were having a ball on stage. We did wonder how LCD Soundsystem would top them, but James Murphy did not let us down. He is fantastic. We do love him, even tho he looks like a roadie, he is a dance rock genius. He even broke of from the vocals to bash away at some drums himself. Fantastic. Danced all night. Finished at 3am.

Very good thank you.

Injuries at Interpol, Brixton

So anyway, Interpol played a very strange intense gig. They have a laid back, almost lazy delivery, yet also played ferociously to what seemed to be a surprisingly indifferent audience. (apart from the mental ones down the front of course). This display of studied boredom isn't unusual round these parts and Shoreditch must’ve been empty that saturday night, so many T&G haircuts were in attendance. Paul Banks has quite a mean, intense vocal delivery, while Carlos viciously played his equally moody bass. The other guitarist whos name I can never remember was ... ... ... at the other side of the stage, so no opinion on him.

But the violence of the drummer!!!

Well not really, at the end of the night the he threw his sticks into the Brixton audience and of course one of them smacked my friend bang on the head. Clunk. Very funny for me. But not for her. I swear it happened in slow motion and it must have hurt like a bastard, but I couldn’t stop laughing.

(I fell down some stairs next morning though, so bad karma was repaid.)