This was the night when Wichita Records took over Brixton Academy. Having seen The Cribs recently in Kentish Town and been very impressed, I took the plunge and bought tickets for this gig, part of a tour of some bigger venues. I was then delighted to see that they had pulled off their "lets get great support acts" trick again. After Adam Green at the Forum, this time it was the amazing Los Campesinos!, and Sky Larkin.Sky Larkin were up first, playing songs drawn mainly from their criminally underrated album The Golden Spike (and the BBC seem to agree about it being underrated too). The songs were catchy, and the band managed to not get completely lost in the largeness and emptiness of Brixton Academy (when you are on first and playing to an empty venue) - their sound filled the venue nicely, and their set was well received.
Next on were Los Campesinos!, a band I'd seen before in the most amazing circumstances, and have loved ever since. They kicked their set off with Death To Los Campesinos!, which ensured the audience were right into what they were doing from the word go. As well as a selection of the best tracks from their first two albums, they also played a clutch of new songs from their forthcoming album, Romance Is Boring. These sounded excellent, quite a bit rockier than some of their older stuff, but very good. All in all, I was gutted when their set ended, so good it was.
But obviously The Cribs soon made up for any disappointment caused by the loss of Los Camp - their set was once again full of power and energy, and never dipped below being fantastic. Again they dropped pleasant surprises (in the form of older songs) into the set at various points, my highlights of this set were Emasculate Me, the obvious Be Safe, and City Of Bugs which is becoming one of those awesome set closing songs. A brilliant set (again) from a band who, if there is any justice in the world, will be getting bigger and bigger as they continue to get better and better.
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