Reviews

The sheer muscle of the band’s performance is unbalancing. While somewhat abstract and romantic on record, PVT’s live aesthetic is one of stomach-clenching grunt.

Badler has shown her great talent as a singer and performer tonight, matched by her great personality and charm. We look forward to the new album and dreams of Diana.

Minor crowd grumbles aside, the show is a fantastic display of Blake and his band’s excellent musicianship and quality songwriting.

They play a few more songs, again mixing new and old before leaving the stage. They return for a quick encore and hammer out Lost Control, getting the crowd going crazy one last time.

As Carlos had so passionately told the crowd earlier, “We’d play all night if we could”. And after such a performance, everyone wishes they would.

Unlike a lot of their indie dance contemporaries, Strange Talk are joyously upbeat at all times, unashamed to toss a little cheese into the mix and pummel us with beats that irresistibly lead to the dancefloor.

Dick Diver are ready for the real world. If only we could keep them for ourselves a while longer.

DeWolff offer an album that rejoices in its garish love of pysch and prog, which clearly arrives from a genuine delight in living and breathing this classic sound.