Tuesday 27 July 2010

Support:
Flats

Klaxons were playing the intimate venue of Village Underground in Shoreditch to test out material from their forthcoming album ‘Surfing The Void’. By the time they took to the stage (after a curious punk support act called Flats) the room was packed with eager fans. Klaxons launched straight away into a frenetic rendition of new song Flashover, which set the pace for the evening. The crowd instantly turned into a sweaty mass of dancing bodies and were cheering and screaming loudly inbetween each song, which seemed to please the band as they kept thanking everyone profusely. The set consisted of a good mix of old and new, with fan favourites ‘Magick’ and ‘Golden Skans’ flowing seamlessly into the new sounds of ‘Valley Of The Calm Trees’ and ‘Twin Flames’. They saved the best for last with a rousing encore of the thundering title track from ‘Surfing The Void’ and closed on ‘Atlantis To Interzone’, which ensured that not a single pair of feet in the room were static.

Overall it was a fantastic return to form, although while the new material sounds heavier and more mature, it’s still very much in the tried and tested Klaxons style. I can’t help but wonder what was on the album they uncermoniously dumped last summer.

As Above, So Below
The Same Space
Gravity’s Rainbow
Venusia
Golden Skans
Twin Flames
Two Receivers
Macgick
Valley Of The Calm Trees
Echoes
Future Memories
It’s Not Over Yet
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Surfing The Void
Atlantis To Interzone