Support band Low Flying Owls wish they were at CBGB's in 1978 - I wish they were too. Sure, their record collections probably contain all the right stuff: Television - check, Talking Heads - check, Stooges - check, but their 'songs' were just one cliched riff after another. This one sounds like 'I wanna be your dog' - that one sounds like 'Gimme Shelter' etc etc. They had a plush sheep on stage - was I alone in seeing the irony? Interpretive art indeed...
Mystery Jets need to sack their stylist - sequins are not a good look. They may aspire to be as well liked as Coldplay and Keane but these aspirations should fall short of dressing as badly... Anyways, Mystery Jets are at their best when they sound like an updated slant on Orange Juice - call it post-Postcard if you will... Unfortunately though, most of it was bog standard indie-dance, stuff which is done infinitely better by bands like The Black Kids...
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