GIG REVIEW: Robots in Disguise
- Posted on June 14, 2007 9:15 PM
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Robots in Disguise
Barfly, Friday 18th May,
Review By Zarina Raja
There is no better venue in Brighton than the Barfly (formally known as the Gloucester) to watch a band like Robots in Disguise. Despite the slimy walls, the sticky floors, and dingy red lighting, the Barfly oozes a certain grimy charisma that seems to guarantee a damn good party.
The place is practically falling apart, and definitely not ideal to watch bands, but it worked for the Robots. With RID, there is no need to for professional venues in the hope of polishing their music because that would crush everything that RID epitomizes.
As RID strutted on stage at the end of the night, the largely drunk crowd surged towards the tiny dance floor and instantaneously began moving around to the electro noise of the Robots.
Robot Dee Plume worked the excited audience by singing over the crowd, barely keeping to the edge of the stage and sporadically jumping in to the audience. They played all the classics off the current album ‘Get RID’. Turn it up and Hot Gossip went down particularly well as did the short dance routine-slightly reminiscent of 90s classic ‘Saturday Night’ which involved a lot of clapping and lazy spins. Had the venue not been so packed out, I’m sure the intoxicated fans would have attempted some kind of dance routine themselves.
The atmosphere was buzzing as Dee and Sue jammed on their guitars, pumping out screamy-shouty lyrics backed by a keyboards and an energetic drummer. Towards the end, one of the Robots uttered something along the lines of inviting people on stage which resulted in a rampage of about fifty people surging forward and crashing the stage, the Robots getting lost amid the crowd. The music, however, carried on, the Robots -who were seemingly unfazed by it all - pushed on through the set unnerved and enthused.
This was an excellent performance by the Robots who successfully trampled on the boundaries of your average indie gig. RID are definitely a band to be seen live as their fervour for their music is wildly intensified on stage.
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