Here's one just to prove I was there... The support band are a bit odd, I can't even remember who they were - playing a kind of funky studentbluesrock, very much a background kind of band and not at all in keeping with the music of the main act. I'm not begrudging them this, the people down the front were enjoying themselves, maybe I just don't pay them enough attention.
The Streets throw a party. We're all invited. It IS at the Wankademy but we think we can survive. It is also one of those Friday-night-before-Ramshackle ones that finishes way too early. Although I am a bit sceptical of this chav-centric messy garage hip hop, this is a surprisingly energetic and fun performance. He keeps on and on shouting Can you SEE me? Can you HEAR me? DO you UNDERSTAND me? and we all just sort of stand there, wondering.
Still, the show is lo-fi hip hop interspersed with dancey anthems that get the crowd jumping and the Streets' messy cockney sampling style transfers well into the full live band experience. I find myself getting more into the atmosphere than I thought I would, this music has grown on me like a scratchy jumper.
