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Published: 15 November 2007

Not quite so offensive

REVIEW
Does it Offend you, yeah?
Barfly

I WENT to the Does It Offend You, Yeah? gig expecting to be offended.
After all, the band describe their sound as like “an arcade machine being thrown into a lake,” and I hadn’t thought much of what I’d heard on Myspace.
A lot of bands have jumped on the electro-rock bandwagon after the success of Klaxons and the Rapture but don’t have the tunes to back up the hype. I was turned by the end of the night.
The Barfly was packed with teenagers keen to catch DIOYY on the final night of their 23-date tour who clearly knew better than I. Cheeky-grinned frontman Morgan Quaintance grabbed a cowbell and bounced all over the sound equipment as wild-eyed parka-wearing bassist James Rushent wildly sweated it out for the catchy Battle Royale.
Not long after Morgan invited a DIOYY T-shirt-wearing fan to join the band – which lead to a stage invasion – he made the best exit I’ve ever seen at a gig, crowd surfing all the way from the stage to the back of the room and onto the bar.
OK, so some bands jump on bandwagons and don’t deserve the publicity. But DIOYY deserve every bit of hype they get. They’re touring again next spring. Go see them. It would be offensive not to.
ANDY DANGERFIELD

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