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ReviewsYou are in: Norfolk > Entertainment > Music & Clubbing > Reviews > Review: The Wombats The Wombats Review: The WombatsBy Robert Jackman Fast-rising indie sensations The Wombats played a sellout gig at Norwich's Waterfront - and they're at their best when they keep the tempo charging along, according to reviewer Robert Jackman.
Help playing audio/video "Is anyone here looking for love?" asks Matthew Murphy, mischievous front man of The Wombats. Unsurprisingly, the response is lukewarm. The crowd mutter and shuffle, and The Wombats - a trio of recent graduates from Liverpool's Institute Of Performing Arts - are forced to abandon conversation, and roll straight into their next song. It's not that tonight's crowd is a tough one. It's just that, when you go to a Wombats' gig, sombre emotional probes are the last thing you'd expect. Fun imageFor The Wombats is a band with a reputation for one thing: no-strings-attached silliness. They write songs for happy-go-lucky indie-disco types, always on the look out for a chance to erupt into bouts of manic dancing - songs about bike-shed gropes, countryside raves and girls who throw back drinks "like Oliver Reed on an Irish stag do". Take latest single, Let's Dance To Joy Division, which tonight pays a strange tribute to the seventies' miseries, by turning the Waterfront into a sea of sweaty bodies, stabbing their arms into the air. But, unfortunately, not everything in their set brings such high-octane fun, and, halfway through the night, smiles are starting to droop. Their performance of Little Miss Pipedream is clumsy and unaffecting, consisting mainly of bassist Tord Γverland-Knudsen gurning and ooh-ing like an early evolution prototype. Postman PatAnd their penultimate song, a rendition of the Postman Pat theme tune sung in Norwegian, feels more like a schoolboy in-joke than a climax to their set. Luckily for the crowd, a hyperactive sprint through fan-favourite track Backfire At The Disco means tonight's show finishes on a high. With the band bounding across the stage in power-chord bliss, the crowd is reminded that, when they get it right, The Wombats can be a lot of fun. It's just a shame that, once the jokes wear thin, there isn't a little more on offer. The Wombats played The Waterfront, Norwich, on Sunday, 9 November, 2007.last updated: 11/12/2007 at 16:39 SEE ALSOYou are in: Norfolk > Entertainment > Music & Clubbing > Reviews > Review: The Wombats Norfolk Introducing
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