Saturday, July 11, 2009

DAN DEACON (University of London Union, 05/06/09)



Oddly enough, the soulless student-union environs of ULU have now hosted the two most fun gigs I’ve ever been to, which just goes to show- appearances can be deceiving. In truth, it wasn’t all that dissimilar to the sublime San Francisco show I wrote about here, but with the added ‘wow’ factor of experiencing a London audience that actually threw themselves whole-heartedly into the general insanity. The human gauntlet managed to get round at least one corner of ULU’s perimeter (probably would have gone even further if it wasn‘t raining) and this time round, they aced Snookered which of course made me transcendentally happy. The show ended with mass crowd-surfing from the 14-piece ensemble (valuable lesson: Deacon is a very, very heavy man) and a general sense of elation normally experienced whilst under the influence of illegal chemicals. Show of the year? Oh yes.

(Photo: CapitoDenueve (Flickr))

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