Bloc Party misery-guts Kele Orekeke is a big fan of London’s Noisettes. When the two band toured together recently he was so impressed by the athletic, cartwheeling showmanship of vocalist Shingai Shoniwa he was apparently inspired to “up his game” – though we’ve yet to see any evidence of that.
Still, Shoniwa is an undeniably magnetic performer. A some-time circus skills student, she throws herself around the stage with enough wild abandon to detract from the fact that her band are rooted in a peculiarly 90s vision of genre-splicing modernity - a bit Skunk Anansie, a bit Moloko, a bit Sneaker Pimps.
Perhaps America will be more receptive to their charms. They certainly received a huge boost there when their single Scratch Your Name was featured in the last ever episode of The Sopranos.
But if they’re going to make an impact anywhere, it will be with The Count Of Monte Christo - a rootsy stomp in the mould of KT Tunstall’s Suddenly I See, and by some distance the band’s strongest song to date.
10:39 AM | 22/08/2007
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Worst band I've ever seen live.
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