Shitdisco & Eskimo Disco @ The Water Rats

Desirable, Irresistible, Sensational, Crazy crazy ... Oh, oh, oh, oh
… well I wasn’t expecting that!

Now, I love the Rapture, but do they ever call, write or even come over to visit? No they bloody well don’t; so I’m forced to look a bit closer to home and it is the spectacular SHITDISCO (pronounced "shitdisco") who have saved me!

Playing a support slot in a half empty Water Rats isn’t the most auspicious of starts and Luce couldn’t make it either, so I really had to pay attention to this one. And they do not disappoint, exploding all over the place with their dark strobbing epileptic rock.

But our attention is taken by the manically dancing drunken nutter from Bolton [yes, I’d been chatting to him earlier - they always find me!] who has commandeered the dancefloor. He proceeds to strip off and drop his keks, while pogoing all over the place, so we were all a bit too distracted by the sight of his fun sized willy bouncing around in front of the stage to properly watch the band!

It escalated into a weird face off during the explosive 'I Know Kung Fu' between him and the Shitdisco chap on vocals, and a fight for the microphone spilled out into the audience!! Or at least the space where the audience should have been, but all the fey indie boys were absolutely bricking it, and hugged the walls in fear of the scary northerner with his dick out! Until, finally, the timid bar staff chuck him out. Thank you.

They ended the eventful set with ‘Disco Blood’, current single and dirty dancefloor stormer. (Although there wasn’t much dancing being done by the traumatised audience!) Any band where the lead instrument is drums is going to be a bit bloody good, and why use one bass guitar when you can have two – oh yes indeedy! Fringey likes to dance and is very partial to the drumming, and the bass.
We like the - not shit at all - Shitdisco. (I'm taking liberties speaking for luce, who couldn't come, but I know she would have loved it.)


How can you follow this? Why with the exceptional vocoder camp of ESKIMO DISCO! It takes a special kind of genius to do a disco cover of 'The Final Countdown' as your penultimate song and then rap over the top in the style of Dolly Parton! The rest of their set was pure indie electro disco, with a bit of hoe-down country thrown in. Why play only one guitar when you can play two ... ... at the same time. Normal keyboards aren’t enough not when you can sling one over your shoulder as well! 'Picture Perfect’ (new single/download?) is a damn fine tune, the girls and the gays will love them!

While Eskimo Disco do look good, sound great (and gave us postcards and badges), it is the superb Shitdisco who are the main event of the night, although it was probably the worst gig of their lives. We can’t wait for the chance to properly hit the dancefloor to their throbbing tunes and see them again. (without the distractions!)

A night of dance cock, eighties rock and D*I*S*C*O!
Fabulous.