The UK’s most promising up-and-coming band at London’s premiere gig spot? Sounds like a match made in heaven. In the event, it wasn’t quite. I’ve never seen Edinburgh’s finest do a disappointing show yet, but their long tour was obviously starting to take their toll at this point and this show at my favourite venue in London failed to achieve the sheer “WOW” factor of their Latitude and 229 shows. Still, even an off-form Broken Records are better than most bands touring at the moment, and the unveiling of a new song (complete with Sigur Ros style e-bowing) along with a track they’ve only played in London once before pretty much made up for the slightly-less-energetic-than-normal renditions of A Good Reason and Lies. The guys from the band told me that they’ll be recording the debut LP later this year for an early-2009 release; if it’s turns out as good as their EP’s have hinted it might be, we may finally have a British rival to “Funeral”. That’d be something special to behold.(Photo: John Gleeson)
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