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Nemesis Webzine reviews Angelspit live at
Slimelight, London.
Angelspit
Ayria
Ego Likeness
Slimelight, London
Saturday October 6 2007
Now we come to our third band of the night, and
just like the previous acts they hail from one of Olde England's
former colonies. Angelspit represent Australia. They also represent
a healthy dose of punk attitude, hard-wired to a theremin and some
get-stuck-in-matey programming. You want a description in a nutshell?
Try this: Angelspit are what would happen if you strapped the UK
Subs to Einstein's theory of relativity, and sent them into the
future with only a handful of Judge Dredd comics for company. There
are two of them: gesticulating mightily at the theremin, clad in
a substantial acreage of PVC, please welcome the mighty Zoog.
Meanwhile, keeping the sonic maelstrom under control
at the vocal mic, and sporting somewhat more minimal PVC, I give
you the no less mighty DestroyX. Just possibly these are not their
real names, but the rampant racket they generate is entirely real.
Angelspit deal in distortion, lots of it, and loud. Their songs
thunder like an approaching road train; the electronics crackle
like a creek bed in the sun. But it's not just formless noise. The
songs are songs. Structure and architecture lurk in the commotion.
Suddenly, the commotion stops - the band's laptop has crashed, and
taken the entire show down with it. For a moment it all goes a bit
Paul Hogan, but the recalcitrant Mac (yep, it's a Mac - you see,
they do crash!) is eventually rebooted and the noise kicks in again.
Angelspit manage to be both uncompromising and
accessible at the same time. They seem vaguely threatening in their
Mad Max cybergear, and yet you get the feeling they'd be great people
to go to a party with. Just don't ask them to keep the noise down.
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