We Love Scientists @ 93 Feet East

WE ARE SCIENTISTS have seized our very MINDS!

Oh how much does Fringey love the geeks?! And they give us BADGES and STICKERS hurrah! We are SO easily bought!

But first the support bands, where we discovered what a massive influence the Futureheads have been in the last year or so. We’re still wading through the Libertines wannabes, and yet here are the Motorettes “borrowing” entire riffs from the ‘heads, copying their vocal stylings and putting it all through a Blink 182 blender!!! I only wish I was joking.

If that’s the wrong way to do it then ROLAND SHANKS found the right way. Yes they also obviously own copies of some ‘heads cds (both Future and Talking) and maybe a bit of the Cure and we started off wanting to hate them. (Mostly because the singer looks a bit square - not geeky square, but physically box like - he was not the skinny-long-hair we felt should be fronting a band like this.) But they looked like they were having such a great time up there, that we ended up willing them to succeed. And then, right at the end, they covered ‘Great Escape’ – bless.

Then FINALLY (why the long wait boys) we get the indie power pop of WE ARE SCIENTISTS!

Geeky, Beardy and ummm.. Cute(??) come on a bit late but get straight into it - tune after catchy tune - they also do a nice sideline in amusing, between song banter to keep us entertained. Not that I was bored, although Luce did get a bit distracted by boys from other bands who were in the audience. (she’s quite fickle you know). Yes there are elements of HHH and the YYY’s in their music, so not breaking new ground here, but they do catchy pop tunes that make you bounce.

Deep down I was always more Smash Hits than Melody Maker anyway.

So there.

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