Crystal Castles
By: Thomas Hannan
Touring this week -
Brighton Barfly, Brighton - 15/08/2007
Thekla Social, Bristol - 16/08/2007
Liverpool Barfly, Liverpool - 19/08/2007
Tour then continues -
Night & Day, Manchester - 22/08/2007
Corsica Studio, London - 28/08/2007
Tickets: £3 - 7.50, available here.
Why is this worthy of my time and money?: Because new rave isn't going down without a fight, and these guys make the whole dance / rock crossover thing sound so appealing that we're thinking we might just side with them and stick it out. Hundreds of kids jumped in unison to this at this weekend's Underage Festival in London, and so taken aback were we by the way that they sounded like they were finally bringing the soul in to a genre that was lacking anything of the sort that we danced along. Clever, cool, but not imposing or unfriendly - perhaps the whole thing should have sounded like this all along.
Artists in this article: Crystal Castles