Sure, Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies may not be the band to fulfil the needs of mainstream tastes, but those eccentric enough to feel fulfilment from unpredictable and guttural scream-core couldnt ask for more perfect purveyors.
As the venue shakes restlessly at the hands of their powerful, unpredictable clatter-thrash, the crowd cheer and mosh gleefully, despite the trillion-degree heat thats stuck its dick in the air-con, trying to ruin it for everyone.
People mop up the blood trickling from their ears as the band leave the stage, and theres a huge rush at the bar for tap water in the baking heat, before its ¡Forward, Russia!s turn to perform.
For a band that havent changed their set list in the last year, ¡Forward, Russia! still manage to excite to the point of rabid mouth-frothing and hyperactive giggling, so while its no surprise when they open with the electro arpeggios of Thirteen, it in no way lessens its monolithic impact.
As their alt-punk-thash-disco unravels before the crowds best impression of tectonic convection, fans crowdsurf and invade the stage in the middle of every song.
"Theres two more radiators in here that we can ask them to switch on if youre feeling a bit chilly," coos a sarcastic Whiskas before launching into the next track. For the large part, the band battle the heat, but as you see the sweat drip off their foreheads and their breathes deepen to a point of discomfort, maybe its best they end things early.
So whether its for this reason or because they simply didnt have enough material to play, their short but effective set draws to a close at forty-five minutes, leaving a dripping crowd to ring out their t-shirts before catching the tube home.
article by: Alex Hoban
published: 20/07/2006 10:42
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