YYYeah's @ Kentish Town Forum

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs open with the anthemic pounding intro to ‘Gold Lion’ and Karen O struts out onto the stage … ...

So many charismatic front women get compared to Orzolek, it's almost become music journo shorthand for -'yells, shouts and waves her arms about a bit'. - But tonight we realise that those ladies only wish they could pull off this fantastically brazen display of bold theatrics.

From throwing spastic shapes in ‘Y Control’, to moving us with the Yeah's one and only love song, the beautiful as ever, ‘Maps’; Karen shines like a silver star (made of tinfoil!), but performs like a demented banshee. Meanwhile Brian Chase absolutely thunders behind his drums, driving the music ever forwards – part of the three pronged attack on our senses. (Zinner keeps to the shadows; we suspect he is a creature of darkness and sold his soul a lifetime ago. “take it away Nick” indeed.)

With the surplus of cracking choons its easy to forget how innovative and experimental the Yeahs can be. From the screams and yells of ‘Fever’ to the acoustic progression of ‘Bones’, the three headed Yeah Yeah Yeah beast challenges as much as it entertains and Fringey joins the rest of the fashionistas in the forum, dancing about 'till we get a bit sweaty.