DFA1979 at Meanfiddler

Fringey were there to experience Death ... From Above! But also caught Plan B – a bit rubbish and The Rogers Sisters - like a shoutier Toni Basil doing ‘hey Mickey’. We had planned to leave our perch and join the thronging mass for dfa, but when the time came it was absolute carnage and there was no way we were diving into the boiling sweaty riot that was going on downstairs. (However if I was ten years younger ... ...!)

DFA1979 do “almost-camp, two-man disco noise”, and do it well. Had never seen a bass being worked like that before, Jesse managed to play his filthy riffs like it was a giant cock, without ending up looking like a cock himself. And Sebastian Grainger’s wail, while drumming! Goodness. They wrecked themselves. Third song in (or thereabouts) Grainger is shirt off (yummy!) and standing on the audience barrier screaming out “Romantic Rights”. A fantastic show and we got pink badges! The Test Icicles were also there watching, how very scene.

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