The Enemy - London Mean Fiddler - 18/4/07
3/5
By: Matt Tomiak
Although they're patently indebted to the vim n' vitriol of the first British punk era, Coventry trio of angry young men The Enemy are very much a product of the fast-moving contemporary musical age. After just three singles of galvanizing, politically-charged pop, they've packed out the 1,200 capacity Mean Fiddler venue with an audience of rabid, vociferous fans. The debut album 'We'll Live and Die in these Towns' isn't due til the summer, but a fanbase has already been well and truly established for these boys.
Taking to the stage to the strains of 'Too Much Too Young' by fellow Coventry boys and 80s ska legends The Specials, which has to compete with the crowd boisterously chanting the band's name, singer Tom Clarke's Liam G-esque bluster exemplifies The Enemy's swaggering confidence; Clarke also has a habit of spewing out his disgruntled, longing lyrics like an angry young Paul Weller.
The bands' latest single, the venomous, 'Richard and Judy' referencing 'Away From Here', (think The Futureheads covering something off the first Ordinary Boys album) is confidently chucked away as the second track in tonight's set, sending the moshpit into overdrive. And whilst The Enemy may lack finesse, they could never be accused of wanting for confidence. 'Aggro', a shouty, Queens Of The Stone Age-gone-football-hoolie slice of leering, primal rock, epitomises the band.
Spunky, urgent and evidently intent on bludgeoning the opposition, tonight The Enemy seem poised to strut into the big time.
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