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Monkeysuit and BBC Introducing. You’re pretty much guaranteed some top acts when these guys have their name scrawled on the top of the posters, so just imagine what would happen if they got together to curate a night at their favourite Reading stomping ground, the Oakford Social Club. Well Josaka were lucky enough to witness this conjunction on Wednesday night, and what did we get? Monkeyjuicing.
Dead Legs opened the night with their take on scuzzy garage soul. Held together very impressively by front woman Harriet Rock, she was more Joplin than Karen O in her range, with deep sexual growls and hyenic screams clattering against fuzzy guitar and child-like drums. Opening up to us more and more as the set went on, she ended up on the floor of the stage all worn out from carrying the songs all on her own.
By the time Kill It Kid came onto the stage I had been fed too much red stripe by the Circus Sands to really understand the subtle nuances of their blues punk, but they made my little drunken body shake and move like it hadn’t been shaken or moved since my Mum showed me how to use the Shake ‘n’ vac in 1993. I don’t think I’ve ever danced as much to a band with a violin in it before (although I never saw Whiskeytown live). Well attired in their necessary Americana lumberjack shirts (all of them!), they made an impression on the Oakford like a giant country/blues embossing machine. It’ll take a while to flatten it out.
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