Everything Everything plus Special Guests at ICA 4th Nov
The first act to grace the stage was a Scottish band called Findo Gask, full of synths, video game bleeps and barbershop harmonies galore. I could not help but grin throughout their set as you could tell they were enjoying every minute. They got the weary crowd on their feet and up close to the stage, the lead singer at one point even getting out his cowbell (a love/hate relationship for me, definitely an occasion where love won) walking casually throughout the crowd as he played. Without doubt a band to watch out for, check out their single Va Va Va, as well as a song called Go Faster Stripe which was an absolute gem to watch and listen to live.
The second support band were a disappointment, acting very impassive throughout and completely out of sync with the audience. Not worthy of ‘special guest’ status. They said very little and played nothing to inspire any desire to remember their name for future reference so I will move swiftly on to the main event.
Having never seen Everything Everything live before, due to them being situated in Manchester and I here in London, I was intrigued to see how they would piece together their set, for they are a pretty unusual band to categorize into a particular genre. At one moment they seem pop to the core, then unexpectedly mid song a rock out will commence, followed by a dance floor mash up full of keyboards and hardcore harmonies – their name justifiably keeping it open to absolutely anything.
Within the live setting I found they were a lot louder than I expected, it felt like a rock gig at times, but due to their twist of unexpected harmonies and incredibly catchy tunes I was hooked from the start.
Their most recent single ‘My Keys Your Boyfriend’ sounded brilliant live and had the crowd tingling with excitement at the first line. Suffragette Suffragette one of their older singles was also a pleasure to see live as it ignited the audience into a singing frenzy, as did their closing song Photoshop Handsome which has the most randomly original topic I’ve heard in a song and is a rebellious joy to sing along to. I was also particularly taken with a beautiful song called Wit, which I had never heard before but was by far my favourite song of the night.
Fingers crossed a debut album will follow shortly as that song alone left me wanting more, and due to their uniquely original take on crossed genres it’s very hard to find something similar right now.
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