Anyway, Animal, Burial, Sylvia, Black & Blue are all good songs, the album is good as a whole and it was a great gig. We got there to see the second support act, the great Theophilus London, check out his myspace and blog. His one aim was to get the audience swaying which he did, his stage presence and moves were great and the booty shacking beats and bass of his music all worked to great effect. One song features a sample of Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" a song he had always wanted to hear in clubs. This New York cat has style, never takes his sunglasses off and flirts with girls at the front of the crowd and moves around enough to interrupt his mic which keeps crackling. Theophilus has a touch of the Spank Rock about him, and man I wish they would do another album, bring on the ACTs! Theophilus is fun and should hopefully leave us with some good time party jams, he's doing some more shows in London so check out his blog, including on at Fabric this Friday which also features Spank Rock on the line-up...mystery, mystery, it's all mystery.
After Theophilus's energetic show Miike Snow eventually appear, with a full band, all in matching black jackets and white masks, amidst a lot of dry ice and swirling white and purple lights and it takes a little while for them to kick in, seemingly a little anti-climatic but after the opening song they go straight into "Burial" and follow it up with "Black and Blue". And the crowd love it, and are moving. There's alot to be said for a band that makes the live experience something to savour, the songs are built up live, throbbing baselines and big beats add to the original album's sound. Frontman Andrew Wyatt gets out into the front of the crowd and gives it everything.
On stage Miike Snow's three members are joined by a bassist, who sports an Amish looking hat, a drummer and an extra man on synths. The good but, for me, not extraordinary sound of the album is great live, I don't want to hammer the point but it was great. They ended their main set with "Animal" which really gets the crowd going. Again it is beefed up and the original is expanded, extended, brought out of its mould and turned into something bigger and better. We, the audience jump around and sing-a-long, as you should with such great pop and of course declare in unison, that we too are all animals.
Miike Snow live? Wicked man. An instrumental encore slightly dampens the mood, they are great musicians and sound great but it is a little anti-climatic after the beast that was "Animal". A gargantuan Scala cloakroom queue further dampens the mood but Miike Snow pleasantly surpassed all initial expectations and are in strong contention for my gig of the week.
One down, two to go. Did I mention I love live music?
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