As detailed here, I saw Owen “CFTPA” Ashworth at Bush Hall a couple of weeks back, and thought he was great. So great in fact, that I decided to check him out again at the Kilburn Luminaire. And once again, the world-weary indietronic-ist didn’t disappoint; being the last show of the tour, he played some of his more obscure tracks, took loads of requests and played the superb "Tonight Was A Disaster," which had been omitted from the Bush Hall setlist . Jenny Herbison drunkenly fulfilled her promise at the previous show to add a tap-dancing routine to her performance, the crowd was very receptive and it's just a shame it over-ran so much; it's the second gig in a month I've had to leave early from because of trains. As for the supports: Rotterdam-based Harry Merry was the most unsettlingly sinister character I've seen in my twenty-two years life life. With his sailor suit, Anton Chigurh hair and creepy, Peewee Herman vocals, hitched to hyperactive, Max-Tundra-ish keyboard freakouts, he looked like a mentally deficient sex offender and scared me to the point of tears. Then from the ridiculous to the sublime, a.P.a.T.t put on the most genuinely interesting performance I’ve witnessed in a while. Basically Akron/Family taken to their logical conclusion, they're a lively, multi-instrumental six-piece who essentially cram every single genre under the sun into their music- frantic Gypsy-folk, death metal, 80's R&B, techno, math-rock... Yeah, it was inarguably pretentious, but they're so fascinatingly unique that they're easily the best "support band discovery" of the year so far.
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