GIG REVIEW: Be Your Own Pet
- Posted on April 2, 2008 1:16 PM
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Be Your Own Pet
Scala, Tuesday 1st April
Review by Zarina Raja
I have no idea where to start. Be Your Own Pet completely obliterated the Scala last night. They played one of the most splintering sets that I have seen in for a long time. Jemima Pearl and her band make music to drown in - and last night’s set was no exception.
The boisterous, heaving, and sweaty crowd sunk into BYOP’s screeching Punk/Pop tunes with a frantic immediacy and fraught urgency. The gig stripped things back to basics; a bunch of crazed fans, lunging like lunatics, to a band that are wonderfully unrefined, raw and passionate performers.
Jemima Pearl, BYOP’s ferocious front girl, rocked it harder than Courtney Love during her Pretty On The Inside era. Jemima has the appearance of a typical American girl; tiny, pretty and blonde, a girl that gets all the boys sweating in their pants with just one look. As soon she opens her mouth, however, this sweet-as-pie image rapidly deteriorates.
The Scala watched in amazement as an incredible voice surged out from her petite frame. She threw her body about with strong, convulsive movements that were so heavily contrasted to her fragile image.
Her make-up - two red stripes across her face and a smattering of eye liner - sweated its way off, while the neat pony-tail that she started with swung round and round with her paroxysmal dance movements.
The cute blonde girl that first walked appeared at the Scala left the stage bedraggled, wide-eyed and wild-eyed.
The set included a mix of songs from Be Your Own Pet’s first album, their EP which included You’ve Got Me on a Leash, and songs from their new album, Get Awkward, which was released in March.
After an electrifying set, Be Your Own Pet crashed back on to the stage for an encore, singing Bunk Trunk Skunk to a delirious crowd.
It’s been a long time since I have smacked a high-five onto a stranger’s perspiring hand after a gig as he shouted ‘amazing’ in my face while moving aside for the wasted girl who was being dragged out of the mosh pit. There is something devastatingly youthful about BYOP. They take you back to a better place where rules mean nothing and freedom of choice is everything. Punk-Rawwwk yeah.
Be Your Own pet totally annihilated the Scala. One of the best gigs of the year so far!
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Kate Spiegelhalter
..and my thanks to that guy out there who scraped me off the floor as I was getting trampled on!
Posted on April 3, 2008 10:40 AM
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