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The Rapture
March 01, 2007

Well, when I said it might be a while after Trev's party before another post got put up here. I didn't expect it to be this long. The consequences of arriving for a party at 5.00pm on a Saturday and not leaving until midnight the following Monday [with only one period of sleep] is a lack of much energy to do anything else later in the week... Unfortunately plenty needed doing!

Including The Rapture at the Astoria last night. They were far less polished sounding than the last album suggested they might be, which is fine by me, although the sound at the Astoria is rarely good in my experience. Both Underworld and Princess Superstar gigs that I've attended there have been spoiled by the sound. It certainly wasn't a lack of volume, just separation and levels. There was a particular predominance of cowbell I must say!

But they put on a good show with very little interaction with crowd apart from some crowd surfing during the encore. They just got on with it with every other track finding another band member playing a keyboard that you hadn't previously noticed in one corner of the stage or another.

The Rapture wear their influences on their collective sleeves with essences of post punk acts like Gang Of Four and PiL. But you find thoses squaring up to the pop and goth nuances of Duran Duran and Gene Loves Jezebel [Luke's vocals are very similar to Michael Ashton's if you ask me] and even the odd suggestion of the [largely overlooked] first couple of Japan albums. Well, Luke's guitar solo on The Devil is pure Rob Dean in my book. All of this is underpinned with some old school house lines and a tendency to wander into 60s/70s style elongated jams with jazz style sax noodlings!

A good live act I'd like to see in another venue with better sound; If had had a bit more energy I would've fought my way into the centre of the crowd, where I'm sure the sound would have been better, and enjoyed it even more.

Categories: Music, London

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