GIG REVIEW: Lovvers
- Posted on September 29, 2008 3:27 PM
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Lovvers
Old Blue Last, Shoreditch, Friday 26th September 2008.
Review by Amir Ahmed
Tricky thing naming your band and it seems Lovvers are no exception. Did they really have a good think about that moniker? It's not really one to stick in the mind or trip off the tongue. Having said that their band tees at the back of the hall, look slick and don't seem the work of amatuers. And that seems what Lovvers are about, they get on stage and shuffle about, milling onstage looking real uncomfortable, until a few chords are hit and they burst into a frenetic, explosion of energy. And they play really well, masquerading as people who don't care and are trying to be punk in attitude and reckless with abandon.
I don't know if it's their friends who've created this brilliant mosh pit, but they interact with the band, with a familiarity which seems like constructed chaos. The band, their appearance, really, really remind me of Blur. Remember when Popscene came out in the middle of shoe-gazing and it was all spiky pop, amidst a sea of stoned melodies and long fringes. That's what Lovvers are reminiscent of. Their guitarist is excellent, he really stood out as he worked frantic melodies and valiantly hid them in a sea of jagged feedback. They seem like a band who could really be both versatile and bold. A plastic cup sails through the air and hits the singers' head and he goes mental, really agitated that such a thing could occur, but surely at a gig, which exudes punk posturing, you'd expect something like that to happen? He certainly doesn't mind pinning one of the moshers who jumps up onstage, onto the floor and sitting on him, while singing. So audience interaction is the order of the game when it comes to Lovvers! Tellingly, as the mosh pit starts to become really unpredictable, a well built, bespectacled gentleman, with a jumper adorning his soldiers in a rugger, bugger chic style, comes and plants himself between audience and band. He certainly doesn't look like a bouncer and the way he regards the band is with a definite sense of pride. As the singer indicates to him, he tells the crowd, completely unashamedly "that's my dad", the Lovvers middle-class boys playing punk, credentials are verified. Sid Vicious would turn in his grave. And then have a mosh because Lovvers are one of the most exciting bands I've seen in ages and are definitely gonna be ones to watch. Hell their are loads of A&R men sticking out like sore thumbs, they must be going somewhere.
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