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Klaxons - Leeds University
2007 will be seen as the year of Klaxons make no mistake on that one, but i’m also fairly confident in predicting that unless they can move forward and come up with some corking new tracks then they will be forgotten about quicker than you can say “new rave”.
Not a popular opinion I admit, the NME love them, the Mercury Music Prize Panel obviously loves them having named their Myths Of The Near Future album the winner this year and seemingly you the music fan love them too as a sold out well in advance tour, goes to prove.
Before Klaxons hit the stage to their adoring public tonight though, we are treated to a very good support band in Simian Mobile Disco. They have just come onstage by the time I make it to the venue tonight (bit of a dash back from a function in Buxton earlier in the day). it’s a Saturday night and they are a perfect dance act to get the crowd going, they have the front ten rows bouncing away with their beats and highlights of the set include the brilliant new single The Hustler and the fantastic It’s The Beat, both of which should really have been big hits in my eyes.
I’ve loved seeing Simian Mobile Disco and for me the Klaxons appearance to a massive reception is a bit of an anti climax in the scheme of things. So aside from the obvious hype, what do they bring to the table?
Well one thing I can’t knock them for is the energy displayed and the effort they put into the gig, they have the crowd in a frenzy from the opening song to the last. The problem with them for me (and especially live) is that they are a little bit limited, I feel the album is massively over rated and aside from Gravity’s Rainbow, Atlantis To Interzone and the superb Golden Skans they don’t really have any songs.
- Klaxons
- Leeds University (1st December 2007)
- Category: Live
- Label: Universal
- Support: Simian Mobile Disco
- Reviewed by: Kev
- Published on: 23 Dec 2007
- Comments: 0
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Add to favouritesLive they lose so much of their appeal in that they throw out the dance element to their tracks and instead replace it with a chugging guitar sound that puts them nearer to being space metal than new rave, it turns every song into a tinny racket of which only Golden Skans just about escapes with it’s sound intact and even that is only by the skin of it’s teeth.
Don’t get me wrong the crowd seem happy enough with everything but for me this tour will be the high point of a career that judging by their album title, even the band themselves realise may be short lived, it’s fine riding high on the crest of a wave, however the fall from that height can be both quick and very painful.
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