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It’s not for the cock, it’s for the most beautiful people in the room

Posted in Flip, Gigs at 3:58 pm by Flip

Late of the Pier/ Slagsmalsklubben/ Video Nasties @ The Plug - Sheffield 26/02/08

The blog have been singing the praises of Late of the Pier for sometime now. However, it is only recently that they are starting to get a lot of attention from the rest of Britain. Tonight they take to the stage in Sheffield.

“We are Slagsmalsklubben, and we are from Sweden!” Slagsmalsklubben are the best thing since Abba to come from the other side of the North Sea. With their own unique sound of “Modern Keyboard Music” and with the name being the title to ‘Fight Club’ in Swedish, they had the crowd on their side from the start. Kicking off their set with ‘Sponsored by Destiny’, they had a near full crowd dancing and smiling from the first note. Playing through a great set, Slagsmalsklubben have drawn a lot of attention from a lot of people during this tour, and playing up to the crowd with comments like ‘We play music for the most beautiful people in the room” the crowd loved every minute of it. It was just a shame that they were on first so had such a short set.

To follow are London four piece Video Nasties. They are a great small band, it was just a shame they had to follow Slagsmalsklubben. Video Nasties give a great performance, climbing all over the stage and each other. The enthusiasm didn’t come through in their music and their sound seemed a little tired and boring, especially after such an energetic opening band.

I haven’t seen such a variety of people at a gig for some time. Girls who can’t have left school yet take the first two rows holding their glowsticks ready for some serious “raving”, guys as old as forty take their place, standing at the back, and everyone else huddles in the middle waiting for one of the most talked about bands of the year.

Almost marching on to the stage Late of the Pier take up their positions and begin with the intro, which has now become synonymous with their gigs, which leads into ‘Broken’, a funky dance track with the sole intention of getting everyone dancing. As the intro to now anthem ‘Space in the Woods’ begins the crowd go into a frenzy with everyone pulling shapes and jumping up and down. Playing this so early on you start to think that maybe they’ve peaked too earlier, but with tracks like ‘Heartbeat.Flicker.Line’ and the new single ‘The Bears are Coming’, Late of the Pier go from strength to strength and nothing seems to be able to stop them. That is until front man Sam Dust’s guitar broke. I don’t know whether it was they didn’t want to spoil the show by waiting for it to be fixed or they were lazy or it just couldn’t be fixed, but announcing “I didn’t like playing guitar anyway” the drums of their last single ‘Bathroom Gurgle’ kick in. The crowd didn’t seem to mind that the set had been cut short and made the most of their last chance to enjoy the gig; it was just a shame it only lasted half an hour.

Slagsmalsklubben are hoping to release their single ‘Haent’ in late spring. Late Of The Pier have just released a new single ‘The Bears Are Coming’ and are hoping to release an as yet untitled debut album later in the year.

Late of the Pier - myspace

Video Nasties - myspace

Slagsmalsklubben - myspace

Kom Igen Kommisarien - Slagsmalsklubben (mp3)

Stereo - Video Nasties (mp3)

Also here are two Late of the Pier tracks, a live one from the Social (or whatever it’s called now) in Nottingham and a remix by Metronomy.

Intro + Broken (Live at The Bodega Social Club) - Late of the Pier (mp3)

The Bears are Coming (Metronomy Remix) - Late of the Pier (mp3)

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