Misty's Big Adventure

Like the STD run-down list of bisexual Soho sex dwarf, Misty’s Big Adventure must be seen to be believed. A cartoon amalgam of jazzy pop, skankadelic punk and psychotropic rock-hop, complimented by a handful of toy instruments and a dancing monster named ‘Erotic Volvo’, Birmingham’s new avant-garde alumni are an ethereal blessing for the eclectically minded listener.

Bouncing onto the Social’s tinsel-enhanced stage like decorative baubles falling off a Christmas tree, lead-singer and Misty Mastermind, ‘Grandmaster Gareth’ looks like Bill Bailey sent through a sideways Star Trek beam, momentarily stopping in Nottingham between jaunts to Pluto and Jupiter.

With such uplifting, escapist music like this, it seems unreal that the eternally drab meanderings of Pete Doherty and his ilk are able to dominate the alternative mainstream – one sitting of this Big Adventure and suddenly a Babyshambles Drug Trip seems as rock and roll as a weekend with the family at a Pontin’s caravan retreat.

It seems most people at The Social tonight have not previously heard the band, bar the collected ten or twenty at the front who manage to encapsulate every episode of The X-Files ever into their highly erratic, rocket launch dancing, and their enthusiasm carries through. Soon everyone is super-gyrating to the beats, trying to kick up their own little asteroid whirlwinds, and it’s an awful lot of fun.

Songs like ‘Two Brains’ are far-out tales in themselves, told over sparkling, bouncy tunes that would send Mr Spoon’s arms flapping all over place, cocking up his highly difficult landing procedure on arrival at Button Moon.

Erotic Volvo, a man monster kitted out with a hundred pairs of hands, brings the surreal performance full circle, perpetually running about and falling over for our amusement. It’s like a musical version of The Mighty Boosh and people laugh as much as they dance.

By the end of it all, most people’s hair is a mess, as if they’ve been thrown in a musical spin-dryer. Eye opening, entertaining and thoroughly exciting, Misty’s Big Adventure is a trip not to be missed.

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