Animal Collective / Battles / Adem - Astoria Theatre, London
By: Thomas Hannan
Venue: Astoria Theatre, Charing Cross Road, London
Date & Time: 13/07/2006, 6.00pm
Tickets: £14.50 face value, available here
Why is this worthy of my time and money?: The reasons here are manifold. Animal Collective were recently inducted into our Bandwatch section (a highly sought after honour) because we love them. It's some of the freest, more creative music we've been subjected to in aeons, there are thousands of them, and live it shall kicketh offeth. The support bill is probably the strongest you'll witness for months - Battles (with an 's' at the end, making them a very different band to our cherished Battle) we caught at The Mars Volta's All Tomorrow's Parties festival and danced our tight little backsides off. Not only them, but Adem too. Did we say manifold? Well, we meant threefold. Still...