GIG REVIEW: NME Awards Tour 2008
- Posted on February 24, 2008 6:04 PM
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Review by Zarina Raja
On Friday night, South London was heaving with floppy fringes and skinny jeans, all of which headed towards the NME Awards Tour at Brixton Academy.
Kick starting the night were the highly acclaimed Ting Tings, who came third in the BBC’s 2008 new music poll.
Oh, and what a way to start off a band-jammed night.
Katie White, lead singer and guitarist of the recently formed Ting Tings, didn’t need to do much to pump up the eager crowd.
With admirable ease, they covered Brixton with their smash-Pop-Punk melodies, owning the crowd after their first song.
Does it Offend You, Yeah? picked up nicely from where Tings Tings left off. They managed to work the already pumped audience into a throbbing mass of movement and air punching.
The Electro-Indie ensemble crashed their way through their set and completely obliterated Brixton Academy with a trash-thrash version of We are Rockstars.
It was impossible not to lurch back and forth with the rest of crowd to DIOYY.
NME had done well; we were only half way into the night and Brixton had already been stormed by what looks to be two of the hottest bands of 2008. Forget Klaxons and CSS, we have new fish to fry.
The third band to grace the stage was the weirdly named, but wonderfully appropriate, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong.
Some bands just give off an irresistible cool-band air, and the Jing Jang Jong are one of them.
Clad in classic Indie band attire, (jeans that look like tights, pointy shoes etc) Joe Lean swiftly ended the Electro vibe that DIOYY had injected into Brixton, and brought us back to some pure Rock basics.
They are a likeable band (possibly because the lead singer is the guy who played Pingu in Nathan Barley and everyone loves Pingu) who, are although placed in the Indie category, have managed to sidestep that Womabt-Envy-Hard-Fi crap. They are a band that easily jump upfront with the likes of Babyshambles, Libertines and Maccabess.
Wrapping up an awesome night, were Wakefields finest (which is admittedly not hard), The Cribs.
With a dedicated following of fired-up fans, they tucked straight into their set like hungry musicians ending a period of starvation, soaking Brixton with some guitar-heavy and ludicrously infectious, Indie anthems.
Although The Cribs don’t exactly hit my musical spot, it would be stupid to deny the contagious energy that leapt out from the stage, making Brixton shudder throughout their fast-paced, amp-splitting set.
The Cribs are a great band to see live and topped off a damn good night.
Buy Ting Tings tickets.
Buy Cribs tickets.
Buy Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong tickets.
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