A dandi time at the shitdisco!

“rave is the refuge for the mentally deficient. It is made by dull people for dull people” - Morrissey. (hmmmmm.....)

Coming all the way from Montreal to play a half empty Metro, DANDI WIND didn’t just play - they PERFORMED for us! The shouting, singing, dancing and kicking front woman, Dandi, channelled the spirits of Patti Smith and Karen O with a gymnastictastic display of whirling sequins and face paint. Cool.

Last summer I thought the Test Icicles were the future of music, mostly because I’d never seen anything quite like it before and I'd been drinking lots of gin. Well, the KLAXONS are taking what the Testies have done, and made it slightly more 'novelty act'. They've removed most of the the 'metal' influences (and incidentally any edge) and then mixed in a bit of – “your names not down, you're not coming in” – rave! Chr*st how awful!

I really can’t be doing with glow sticks and rave whistles. Not even ironically. Not only do they borrow their gimmicky accessories from the nineties, their thumping lo fi dance music is a mindless rehash of 'old school' hacienda - done with real instruments. Any tunage or melody is purely accidental. I might like them more if they just did music and left the toys and the 'too cool for old school' attitude at home, but that's not likely. The kids down the front, in the Klaxons fan club, were absolutely LOVIN' it tho.

Hmmmm.... all the cool kids loving a band who claim to be unironically 'revisiting' a shit genre of music from their youth? ... ... The Klaxons are this years Darkness!!

SHITDISCO must have been ... ummmm…... bricking it, having to follow on from the over hyped Klaxon frenzy, so they kicked off their set with “I Know Kung Fu” a track that, in previous gigs, has inspired some members of the audience to dance like loons and drop their keks in excitement! (not fringey though!) And it worked 'an all. The leftover Klaxon kids went mental for it. Hurrah!