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Justice disturbs peace
REVIEW JUSTICE Koko
KOKO on Thursday found Klaxons, flushed with their previous night’s Mercury triumph, warming up the crowd with a DJ set.
But despite an enthusiastic early response, their mixture of house and electro seemed too hardcore for an oddly mixed crowd.
Thankfully, before tedium really set in, the curtain came up, Justice’s fantastic glowing crucifix started flashing with the bass, and the sweaty mass collectively went mad.
It can be difficult not to be a bit suspicious of acts like this, whose performance consists mainly of sporadically poking their heads up from behind battlements of speakers.
It’s hard to shake the feeling that they’re not just standing behind their laptops checking Facebook, while all the music comes from
a CD. That said, it didn’t matter a bit to the hundreds packed onto the dancefloor, who leapt about with abandon, particularly after the French duo dropped in single D.A.N.C.E.
From then on in it was pretty chaotic, culminating in a mix of Klaxons’ From Atlantis to Interzone into the gargantuan We Are Your friends, which had a couple of girls looking like they might quite literally sing their hearts out.
Arguably the songs, aside from the few stand-out tunes, don’t yet distinguish themselves enough, although that might have something to do with this crowd’s particular relish for the hits.
But when they deliver it this loud and proud (do it justice? sorry) it’s difficult not to share in at least some of their unique, moustachioed Gallic energy.
Ed Cumming
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