The Roundhouse is most probably my favourite venue in London and I hadn't been there for a little while so I was fairly excited +5.
The last time I had been to The Roundhouse with my chum Toish was for a Kate Nash concert as part of the iTunes Festival - probably shouldn't have admitted that but it was free ok and I was being a good friend! Things got a bit messy that night and predictably a similar occurrence happened last Thursday. Hence my reluctance to write this one up for a while perhaps! -5
Anyway, to focus on the gig... It started well with a couple of the hits in the first few songs. Punching in a Dream and All of This went down a storm and Bells was really good too! +6
We were on the left hand side of the venue towards the back and felt a bit out of the atmosphere. One lady shouted "Come on!" loudly and danced a lot but apart from that we felt surrounded by over-affectionate couples and decided to move -7.
We moved across to the other side and our view and experience improved, with the atmosphere proving to be much better +2. Someone even recognised that we were quite short and pointed out a space further forward that we could move to +5.
There were a few tracks that felt like filler (bit like the album to be fair) but, the gig ended on a massive high with Young Blood . I remember thinking to myself, 'wow this song alone is probably worth coming to the whole gig for' - it was that good. +10
The Naked and Famous explained that they did their first gig in London this time a year earlier and it will be interesting to see them do a gig in a year's time. Are they the sort of band that will last the distance or will they be a one album wonder?
I personally think they can do it and look forward to the next album.
Overall a good gig with decent performances and atmosphere. They just need a couple more Young Bloods.
B
