Nizlopi / Declan O'Rourke

After a fantastic selection of songs from Irish singer-songwriter Declan O’Rourke and his album ‘Since Kyabram’, a couple of blokes walk into the centre of the crowd with a double bass and start singing and dancing in a circle. The blokes of course are Lemington Spa’s very own hip-hop folk duo Nizlopi.



Unfortunately titled one hit wonders after the Christmas number one success last year of a song about a certain piece of plant machinery, the baby-faced lads have plenty more sure fire hits up their sleeves. Here to showcase the new mini album ‘ExtraOrdinary’, they also show off their brilliant musical talents playing tracks from debut ‘Half These Songs Are About You...’.

John Parker’s mind blowing mixture of beat-boxing whilst producing amazing music from his double bass has many people wowed; to do one is hard enough, but to also use the bass as a piece of percussion as well is truly flabbergasting.



They start to warm the crowd up early on with a sing-a-long; one side singing “burning” and the other “learning”, then jumping into the centre of the packed audience again so that those at the back could be involved. Luke Concannon’s constant giddiness gives me the impression that these lads are a couple of modern day Peter Pans who will never grow up, jumping all over the stage like they have pants full of ants.

A short rendition of ‘Sexual Feeling’ is an excuse for more singing from the crowd, as well as John’s funny deep voice and bass covering Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’. He also adds little sound effects into the songs using the bass, like dogs barking. ‘JCB Song’ comes halfway through the set, along with ‘Call It Up’, and ‘Freedom’. The heavy hip hop influence and Luke’s excellent vocals give this band the unique edge it needs, along with the commitment and obvious enjoyment of it all by the childhood friends.



Declan joins in the fun on stage for the third to last song, improvising with the guitar and vocals. Luke carries on acting like a 5-year-old by throwing his t-shirt into the crowd, before hitting his chest like an ape and hugging a more sweaty and suppressed John. Definitely here for some time, you can’t dismiss these two of riding on the JCB-sorry-bandwagon of one well-timed number one hit.

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