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For MiniKid Corporation
Klaxons @ Carling Academy Bristol, 14th May
Support from ShyChild + Yeborobo.
For a band with no talent they’re quite entertaining. They take the stage in homemade costumes, face paint, ludicrous hats and silly string, which they don’t hesitate in spraying the crowd with. Who are they, their Yeborobo, not that anyone wants to remember their name after their set. It sounds like their playing ‘music’ for the first time. Little flaws please the crowd like the singer failing twice to crowd surf, which the academy cheers at. They end the set with friends striding on stage with more homemade hats and more noise. What has this music come to?
Shychild are another 2-piece electronica band from the states, with a difference, maybe? Anything is better than the first band. Glow sticks come out from every nook and cranny as well as the nu-rave scene kids just wanting to start a rave for the sake of it. The first song goes down well, the singer smiling continually throughout and with good reason with the crowd being so receptive and a ‘rave’ opening up but in honest opinion after that they all sound the same.
Time for the Klaxons, the crowd who seem to be very young and many wearing the highly acclaimed ‘klaxons are kunts’ shirts very proudly, gather in tight. They open with ‘Bouncer’, a classic track off their EP ‘Xan Valleys’, a little rearranging is made to scream ‘Bristol you’re not coming in’. It’s a great track to set the city you’re in moving. They waste no time and play straight into ‘Atlantis to Interzone’ a major hit. This continues the crowd frenzy and sing along antics. Another single played later on ‘Golden Skans’ must be a favourite to hear, by them of course, hearing the academy trying to sing the ooh’s and ahh’s of the chorus. It gives off a great atmosphere and feel of accomplishment considering they really only have one album to go by. They have some fun in shouting ‘Bristol’ at times to which many groups scream to every time it’s mentioned. The most explosive song of the set ‘Magick’ is another crowd pleaser and by far one of the best sounding. Its one of those that brings a smile to your face when you hear the intro beat. They end the set with a song about the end for the end ’Four horsemen of 2012’ and leave the crowd screaming for more. 4/5
