Los Campesinos!, Southampton Joiners
IT'S a school night, it's not half-term and it's not seven-litres-for-the-price-of-one on cider at the nearest corner shop (I checked).
So why are scores of 16-year-olds dementedly throwing themselves around the Joiners to a band playing violins and glockenspiels, and knocking out Pavement covers?
Surely the kids' are happy being brainwashed with their RazorKooks and KaiserPhonics?
Apparently not - if the geek really shall inherit the Earth, Los Campesinos! appear to be leading the charge.
The Cardiff seven-piece lollop on stage in Southampton looking every inch the band least likely to provoke riotous chaos.
Yet three songs in and the scenester-baiting You Throw Parties, We Throw Knives does just that.
It could be the fact Los Campesinos! (the peasants' in Spanish, by the way) produce shimmering head-rush anthems, the aural equivalent of E numbers. At their best, they evoke the symphonic splendour of the Flaming Lips, infused with the Go! Team's relentless joy.
Watch out - the tweecore takeover could be coming.
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