What? even more Rakes??

Oh Yes! What we really need about now is yet another Rakes review, its been well over two entire weeks since the last one.

But this ones special see, its in the teeny tiny Metro Club and has even promised to go on well past my bedtime! ....

oh and its sponsored by the NME - God help us all!

So anyway ...

We chat through the support, the jammy greendayness of the ONOFFs and some desperately average electro synth eighties outfit called PERFORMANCE, before the THE RAKES bounce on stage and get straight into it.

Even so, its quite a relaxed performance from Donahoe (well it is for him) not nearly as manic as usual and, turns out, he's quite a witty chatty chap. We get the changing of lyrics to tease Matthew Swinnerton about a supposed obsession with Karl 'Neighbours' Kennedy and, at the end of the night, pleading with some of the more excitable fans not to do a stage invasion because ... "it's such a cliché”.

But, most importantly, there is space aplenty in the tiny Metro, for Fringey to do the dancin' and the jiggin' about.

This is Lucefringey’s "interpretation" of the Rakes gig: