The Chameleon's a ramshackle place at best and when, midway through LotP's set, reports are relayed to the front of falling plaster from the ceiling of the downstairs bar, drastic act has to be taken; cue Sam Potter, wide-eyed synth-wielder extraordinaire who instantly, in song form, commands "Please don't dance... you'll DIE if you dance!"- advice immediately negated by the speaker-scaling antics of singer Sam Eastgate as they launch into frantic album highlight 'Whitesnake'. By this point, none of us would be surprised if the floor did collapse after all; the band have already nonchalantly tossed their biggest singles, in 'Space and the Woods' and 'Heartbeat', out with all the furious indifference of an electro Bad Brains, heavy on material but short on time. Sweat runs down the walls and fuses blow, while the one-man security presence hurriedly assembled by the front speaker stacks is almost trampled as Potter's well-meant instructions go unabided. For the briefest of moments, crowd and band become one and the surging ADHD-rumba of 'Focker' begins to make sense. And then, as quickly as we began to gain a handle on the oddest yet most exciting band we've ever been able to call our own, a handful of cocktail sausages fly toward drummer Ross and we're back to square one. Always different, but always the same. God bless Late of the Pier.
Late of the Pier played:
- Space and the Woods
- Heartbeat
- Random Firl
- Broken
- Whitesnake
- VW
- The Bears Are Coming
- Mad Dogs and Englishmen
- Focker
- Bathroom Gurgle
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