Saturday night, so a night out. It is a very rare occurrence that I go out on a Saturday night, unconnected with football. Despite living in London and all that, there just isn't much call for a big night out on a Saturday, when everybody else is out too. But a Belgrave Scandal gig in East London managed to tempt me out of my hovel for a couple of hours.
The band were wearing suits tonight, and went on stage to an almost completely empty Pleasure Unit. This is known as a decent, if slightly dodgy, gig venue, Mr Doherty and Good Shoes are amongst the people to have played there fairly recently. Maybe the suits were homage to the mod history of the venue, or an attempt to create themselves an image.
Very soon into the Belgrave Scandal's set, the venue started to fill up, so that by about the 4th song, there were a good 50 people in there (which is pretty full for a venue of that size). The newcomers hadn't come to see this band, so it was a good chance to test them out on some unknowns. In general, they went down very well indeed - there were people dancing, clapping and cheering - all for a band that they had never seen before, nor heard before. That was my first time testing them on a new audience, and they went down very impressively. Those songs must be good!
This was a Scandal set like the Bullet Bar 6 weeks ago - get on stage, bash the songs out with minimum fuss or chat, then get off again. I like it when they do it that way, and now an independent jury seemed to like it too.
After the Belgrave Scandal came a band called Lucid - fronted by a very young-looking guy, they sounded very American, reminding me of early 90s grunge bands. They sounded very good, bit a little too much into the formula for my liking. After they had finished, I headed home, to leave the East Londoners to the rest of their Saturday night out - newly converted Belgrave Scandal fans and all!
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