The Rapture

‘Godfathers of New Rave’, eh? Well, Klaxons and Shit Disco are playing next door in Stealth tonight, and The Rapture really couldn’t give a f*ck. Punk funk from a time when garage rock was cool (that’s 2003, folks) The Rapture followed up their massively acclaimed debut ‘Echoes’ with this year’s equally party-pumping (if not quite as deeeeeeep) ‘Pieces Of The People We Love’ and here they are now, within spitting distance, stood on the Rescue Rooms’ stage. Brilliant, what more could you want? How about them playing a greatest hits set that takes in all their peaks and even chucks in a few rarities too. Superb.

Opening with the spikey ‘Killing’ is like a thousand shards of glass being fired out the speakers and into our ears, before things get more funky with recent single ‘Get Myself Into It’. The new and old, although both great in their own right, juxtapose oddly, with new songs shining with production sheen that the gritty old numbers, like ‘Echoes’ itself, avoid at all costs.

When they launch into dancefloor-destroying mega hit ‘House Of Jealous Lovers’, the entire venue erupts like a mini Krakatoa and the band stand proud as leaders of the field.

New songs, ‘The Sound’ and ‘W.Y.U.A’ chop the top of your head off with their lacey beats cocktail and when they kick off classic ‘Heaven’, the whole crowd sings along every note. Just what you’re after.

A deep dish encore of ‘Olio’ rounds off the night and spits on the naysayers picketed in the venue next door. The Rapture have always ruled and always will. Peace Out!

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