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April 19, 2011 Thursday , proud owners of some of the most earnest fans in the known Universe, walk onstage to LOUD SCREAMING and jump into a massive version of No Devolucion 's 'Fast To The End', which, to be fair, has enough component parts to it to make Thursday's three guitarists (really guys? Come on) not completely superfluous. Geoff Rickley displays the standard microphone-waving, amp-standing histrionics and the band jerks and bounces about in the appropriate manner. Two songs in, however, this happens: ' Thanks everyone. We're going to play a couple of more [...]

Anyone not in the know might have thought tonight was a joint headlining show. Such was the strength of main support, Manchester's The Answering Machine . We could use many phrases to describe them, however we'll nick one from a guy stood behind us to his mate: "They're like the Strokes if they'd been to Art School and didn't have money, together with Franz Ferdinand if they'd bunked off Art School or if they'd not spent years poncing around". Couldn't have put it better myself. Angular, fast paced and smartly dressed at first [...]

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