DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH?

So, after a delay slightly longer than the minute I promised, my review of Does It Offend You, Yeah? goes along the lines of this:

The house lights are off, the stage is empty. A synth starts playing the intro to Being Bad Feels Pretty Good*. I bid goodbye to my companions and organise where to meet up after the show. The band come on and the crowd become a single organism, an organism that lives to feel and respond to Does it Offend You, Yeah?
I was definitely impressed by the support acts but I could see instantly why these guys were top of the bill.

My poor Pizza Hut Chef Hat, already almost blasted from my head by Housse de Racket disappeared at this point, never to be seen again.

I assume you've never heard of DIOYY (as their friends call them), most people haven't. You'll have probably heard We Are Rockstars though, if only because it's at the beginning of Horne and Cordon. I'd embed it but apparently as they're signed to EMI, I can't, so I'll link you instead. LINK

The best thing you can hope to have at a gig is a crowd that loves the band, and on this front this must have been one of the all-time greats. Never before have I seen a mosh-pit that sings along. Having only heard DIOYY in passing before I found out I was going to see them I wasn't 100% on the lyrics and was therefore in a serious minority. For most songs this wasn't much of a problem though, Let's Make Out is comprised almost entirely out of the title and for the others, the right vowel sounds seemed to do. Anyway, the band.

They spent the evening cranking out blinder after blinder, if anything only getting better as the night progressed. Attack of the 60 Foot Lesbian Octopus gave us all a chance to rest our voices and have a little game of "who can jump the most". They even played us some new stuff, for example the song which could possibly have been called The Monkees are Coming which gave them an excuse to slag off the music business and support illegal downloading, which generated a large amount of love. They also gave us their phone number (07575 610169) so we could ring them up and say how much we loved them.

They finished of with a special Acoustic version of Dawn of the Dead (well worth a listen by the way, I'll link you again LINK) which segued into the grand finale of, of course, We are Rockstars.

I urge you, if you can see these guys, do. You will not regret it. If you can't, you'll just have to listen to their debut album You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into... until the next one comes out and then you can listen to that.

Next time, The Dead Weathers.

*I think, that night's a bit of a blur really.