Goose

What do you do if it’s a Sunday night, everyone’s tired as it is, you’re a Belgian dance troupe and your limelight (and potential audience) has been stolen by Bloc Party who are playing a way more massive gig than yours at Rock City up the road? Take a risk, delay its start until after Bloc Party have finished, and hope that people are lured in with the flyer discount. Oh, and tell everyone Bloc Party will be DJing afterwards until 3am – like people really want to be clubbing until 3am on a Sunday night.

Well it only went and worked for bloody Goose didn’t it! The European Electro outfit have come a long long way, considering they first started out as an AC/DC cover group. No kids uniforms tonight though, thank f*ck, and definitely no ‘Hells Bells’, they sensibly turned to writing and recording their own music at an early stange, and ended up sounding like a mash up of LCD Soundsystem, Daft Punk and Soulwax. After winning Humo's Rock Rally in 2002 and recording their debut single 'Audience', which Coca Cola used on a selection of European TV Ads, they were signed to Skint Records in 2006. Biog out of the way, here they are keeping people up when they should be getting an early night, touring their ace debut album ‘Bring It On’.

It takes a little while for The Social to fill up post-Bloc Party (who were absolutely incredible, by the way – they are the only contemporary Indie band in the country worth caring about), but once it does it’s like the weekend has only just begun. A lot of the sweat from Rock City is carried over to The Social too, leaving a smell in the air that the normally trendy venue clientèle can’t quite handle.

‘Black Gloves’, Goose’s calling card and future Radio-DJ soundbed for years to come (replacing Royksopp’s Eple, no doubt), sends the place absolutely wild in disco gyration, while songs like ‘British Mode’ and ‘Slow Down’ temper the atmosphere with a little more melody (as opposed to brash synth magic).

The band themselves are non-descript, hiding behind their instruments like every good electro outfit, but people are too busy dancing or talking about how great the new Bloc Party album sounded live, or even walking in circles round the venue trying to spot any member of Bloc Party that may be skulking around.

Those on that particular hunt turn up trumps and find Bloc-head Russell loitering in a corner, elevating the event to official ‘Bloc Party Aftershow’. But despite all this dripping showbiz, it doesn’t detract from Goose’s monster set, which still reigns over all that are in attendance.

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