Reviews / Live

Illy didn’t keep the crowd waiting too long and strode onstage to a huge cheer and to many girls losing their shit and twerking all over the place (yes, really).

It was an interesting night unlike anything I’d seen before, and the audience left thoroughly breathless and satisfied.

After 40 minutes of quality music, Mind Over Matter leave the stage and we’re left with the impression that these guys really ‘get’ hip hop.

Objekt began his performance by momentarily teasing the crowd with demonic drones and barely audible sub bass, before unleashing a set packed full of the relentless and ingenious techno that he has found himself so inseparable from.

She takes time in the pit to flirt, smile and play touchies with the mosh kids but seems to be more concentrated in looking cute and letting her fans adore her than actually showing some genuine appreciation.

Their energetic performance is infectious and gets the sparse crowd yelling for more. No doubt a weekend slot would bring in more bodies and probably the odd mosh every couple of tracks.

The set was generous and ladled on the gravy, and the very specific space-rock guitar fuzz they monopolised in this country was in abundance.

The humble Surrey born brothers performed an array of impressive live adaptations of their wide library of hits, to conclude a day that confirmed Listen Out’s title as not a festival, but a ‘carefully crafted party’.