Live Review: Confidence Man, Lex Deluxe

To warm up the crowd's limbs, Lex Deluxe played an inviting and optimistic DJ set of tropical soundclash house with an occasional vintage disco twist. We didn't get much of a sense of her personality during this set, which she performed under purple and blue spotlights, but she managed to include a few highlights such as Todd Terje's evergreen Inspector Norse.

Things have moved fast for Brisbane quartet Confidence Man who are due to embark on a world tour shortly, after only two years as a band. Stoking the crowd's expectations with several minutes of frolicsome, instrumental dance funk provided by the band's engine room of drummer Clarence McGuffie and synth-guy Reggie Goodchild, vocalists Janet Planet and Sugar Bones sauntered out in what resembled risque tennis outfits and immediately hooked the crowd in with Bubblegum.

As a quartet they executed songs in groups, with brief instrumental interludes from McGuffie and Goodchild to allow for Planet and Bones to change costumes. After nailing the high energy Better Sit Down Boy, Planet and Bones returned to the stage in matching dressing gowns - Planet's prised open by a glow-in-the-dark cone bra inspired by Madonna, who famously sported a similar garment of Jean Paul Gaultier's design. Planet paraded around while Bones sprayed the front rows with champagne, Formula One-style.

The loose dance routines of Planet and Bones are, in their own words, somewhat "dorky", but when performed confidently and with no inhibitions, they encourage ordinary folks to dance much more than watching precise, slick routines tend to do.

Crowd reception was positively rapturous with many hands thrust into the air. The main set climaxed with the triumphantly disdainful Boyfriend (Repeat) during which, with minimal instruction, the whole dancefloor adopted crouching positions, remaining there before riotously jumping up and pogoing once more. This was way too ecstatic a moment to end on and, with some participants literally begging for more, the band dutifully obliged with an encore/victory lap in the form of Out The Window.

Criticisms? Planet could sometimes project her voice more, but that's it. Confidence Man are irresistibly relatable and might just be the future of dance music.