Red Light Company / You Animals

In these Groundhog days of shrill and tiresome repetitive-rock it's really difficult to sift through those with talent and replayability amongst studio pumped fringe boys and toddler quality song writing. The Hull Adelphi, a legendary venue packed with devotees, style and the 'it' pretentious marketers are so adamant about everything having, I was provided with something which has been nothing but an ignored house ghost the past few years; potential.



You Animals come on stage with a harsh Black Francis squeal and a whole lot of power. Unfortunately, at the moment they do fit quite well into today's fodder scene but tinges of interesting composition get their way in there. The main attraction to You Animals at the moment is their sense of dynamics and energy, both present in abundance. At the moment this band are a fresh sculptor's block who have had a little bit chipped but the end product is still too hard to imagine, but rest assured, something lies within, how great we're yet to know.

However the main attraction of the evening was headline act Red Light Company. Like an early Radiohead with their promising but shaky and unpolished debut 'Pablo Honey' their future greatness seems almost assured. They play anthemic Indie music with competence, and an unbearable tightness. Frontman Richard Frenneaux with his Hanson-esque features flaunts a beautiful on-stage presence with a smile that shows genuine happiness with where he is and constant eye contact keeping him in touch with his audience. Quite simply, he has charisma, and I haven't seen this for a long time on Indie's current Bill Murray impersonating stint.



Their songs are very well written and arranged, but we do suffer from déjà vu at several points in the set as the rousing and slightly over driven choruses begin to grate however the gems of the evening showcase an altogether more interesting British Indie act, more akin to what seems like ages ago now when 'Golden Touch' was first released and Franz Ferdinand's absolutely stellar first album hit the charts.

Single 'Arts and Crafts' got obviously one of the biggest responses of the evening but was actually one of the more yawn inducing of the evening, myself being more interested in tracks like pre-encore set closer 'When Everyone is Everybody Else' which showcased an oddly Soundgarden influenced guitar tone. The chorus rocks like, for want of a better word, a bitch and ends the set with a Mythbusters style over-the-top explosion, and it seems what works to make good casual television does the same to good casual music.

Currently, Red Light Company are an exciting band for me, if only for what the future holds. Their songs at the moment always have a tinge of the bland and uninformed but keep your sights set on this band's future, it's the personal opinion of this reviewer they are destined for great things after a couple more albums like a kind of reversed Kings of Leon so if you note down one name from 2009's newborn acts note down Red Light Company.

FUTURE GIGS

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