Live Review: Fun. & Pluto Jonze

Armed with small TV monitors and a Theremin, the electro-pop outfit headed by Pluto Jonze sufficiently electrified the capacity Enmore crowd, who then exploded for Grammy winners Fun., with the band basically blown off the stage before a note played or a lyric was sung.

Figurehead Nate Ruess was brimming with energy, his unique and almost inhumanly high voice sending the teenage female audience crazy, bouncing everywhere and leaving no corner of the stage unturned. Much to everyone's appreciation, they announced this as Fun.'s largest foreign crowd ever, the frontman beaming with pure joy at the new-found popularity the six-piece has accumulated over the last year.

Now obviously Carry On, We Are Young and Some Nights were massive, sounds of teenage dreams of coming true and all that – typically played towards the set's conclusion; however, it was the lesser-known releases from 2009 that displayed the New Yorkers' real capacity for greatness. Tunes like All The Pretty Girls and At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used To Be) allowed Ruess to unleash this enormous vocal range, while lead guitarist and co-founder Jack Antonoff really had a shred. The audience buzz subsided momentarily and everyone just listened.

Fun. were plugging their old stuff, Ruess imploring everyone to check out the Aim And Ignite album, and fair enough – it's great. Clearly, in the eyes of the young crowd, last year's Some Nights could do no wrong, but ask any long-term fan, these classic songs are the shit (note: to mid-teens, 2009 is actually a long time ago).

Expectedly, Fun. were, in fact, fun. Covers of the Stones and an impromptu mini-recreation of Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville were interesting additions to a mix-match of their two full-lengths, leaving the Enmore on their feet and the band sorry to leave.