All Kinds of Everything
A wonderful night at Plug n Play on Friday 30 November, with four bands providing great entertainment to a packed Milford Street crowd through the venue’s impressive sounding new sound system.
Johnny Arrow and The Cheap Day Returns started the night well, with a smattering of witty pop tunes and smiley choruses.
Vices, lined up like a firing squad due to the, ahem, limited space on the rather dimly-lit Plug n Play stage, oozed sex from every pore. The bevy of enthusiastic teeny boppers at the front of the stage lapped up the powerful riffs and guttural rock n roll howls from their lead singer. They really are a fantastic live band, and although their sound lacks a bit of variety, the crowd lapped it up.
Scottish four piece Findo Gask upped the ante, producing the highlight of the night with set closer ‘Go Faster Stripe’, interweaving angelic vocal harmonies (a lovely nod to currently fashionable Fleet Foxes style layered fifths) and sounding like The Futureheads should have done if they’d actually paid attention to Kate Bush rather than just covering one of her songs. Halfway through their set the lights went out but this just seemed to concentrate the delightfulness of their synthed up, looped up pop.
So a hard act to follow for Everything Everything, but they did so with aplomb. They’ve been touring the country with Findo Gask so they evidently know what to expect from them and they seemed to feed off the positive energy in the room generated by the Scots. This was a great performance and it surely can’t be long until their genre-defying harmonic pop is soundtracking the nation’s drives to work.
Review by Jonathan Amphlett
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