Neon Indian at Heaven

On a Thursday some weeks ago now I went to see Neon Indian at Heaven.

It was two nights of gigs in a row with Nate and Brad but luckily I wasn't bored of them yet +2.

To warm up for the gig we went for some yummy pizza at Soho Joe's +3 followed by a perhaps misguided Garlic Beer at Garlic & Shots -4.

We arrived at Heaven and were greeted by a poster of Olly Murs and the promise of every X Factor loser performing there on a Saturday night. I was bummed that we had missed out on seeing Olly (just joshing) but looking forward to Neon Indian.

Support from Theme Park was surprisingly good as I hadn't heard of them before and they looked about 15 years old +6. They are definitely worth checking out if you haven't already.

We were upbeat and ready for Neon Indian. I'd listened to Era Extraña a few times and enjoyed it but wasn't confident I'd recognise all of the tracks so was looking forward to a mixture of new and old (Psychic Chasms).

Well, Mr Indian aka Alan Palomo, came on stage and had heaps of energy. Moving around the stage, using various bits of equipment, whilst singing and dancing showed a great deal of musical prowess and was pretty admirable +7. However, as impressive as it was, the atmosphere wasn't totally there and think it would've helped to have a bit more chat and not just rubbish chat about the Texas embassy in London -6.

The bald guy next to me was starting to bug me a bit as he had a big bag bashing me a little and kept taking notes every second like he was really important or something -3. I tried to breathe my garlic beer breath in his direction to repel him like a vampire but it only semi-worked when he went to the bar after 20 minutes +2. Overall though I couldn't complain much about the view of the stage or the crowd +4.

Anyway, I was itching for more Psychic Chasms and Alan finally delivered with a brilliant rendition of Deadbeat Summer - just a shame it wasn't longer +7.

There was a predictable fake stage departure and encore but Neon Indian didn't go off stage with a bang - I was more concerned about dashing for the cloakroom queue and getting home to brush my teeth -3.

Overall it was a good gig, but despite the energy of Alan and his obvious talent, something was missing.

B