NME Tour - New Rave Tour β Custard Factory - 10 October 2006
 | | Sh*tdisco photo: Lee Allen |
This autumn music bible NME is instructing us to listen to what they are calling New Rave Just to emphasise how great this βnew sceneβ is they have put together a handy touring package, how nice! First up all the way from Glasgow, Sh*tdisco. All dressed in white and bouncing around the tiny stage with no regard for their own personal safety they play the sort of fuzzed up, garage rock, electronica that makes your head explode and your heart dance in a your stomach. Swapping instruments and seemingly vocal duties (it is difficult to tell at times!) they blaze through a handful of tracks with the crowd jumping higher with every passing note. Finishing with Reactor Party their set was over all too soon.
 | | Datarock photo: Lee Allen |
After what seemed an age as banks of samplers where swapped for other banks of samplers Datarock take to stage dressed in matching maroon tracksuits. Normally the Norwegians are a duo but their live show is beefed up by the addition of more members and again vocal duties are swapped with wanton abandon. As with Sh*tdisco the rave tag is very very loose as Datarock play a camp electro disco with scuzzy guitars. Playing a show on their own they would be very good but following Sh*tdisco repetition sets in and everything becomes a little samey.
 | | The Klaxons, photo: Lee Allen |
So to the headlinersβ¦.. The Klaxons are the first band to break out of this New Rave scene when they had a minor hit with Atlantis to Interzone. Tonight they hit the stage running with rousing cover of The Bouncer by Kicks like a Mule (βyour names not down youβre not coming inβ¦β) the funny thing is most of the audience were still in nappies when it was originally released. Following this with Atlantisβ¦ makes a breathtaking start however again repetition sets in very soon. The band themselves try their hardest and the assembled masses bounce and cheer in all the right places but for me everything falls a little flat. Maybe itβs because I remember the music the first time? My name IS down but Iβm not coming in! | 
