Petronia

Not my photo, nor one of the Montreal gig actually. I just wanted to give a sense of the light show, as being representative of the prevalent mood i.e. RAINBOW POSITIVITY.

This was a last-minute sort of deal, on the strength of singles from 2004** and an impression that they were the two least objectionable acts in the blogger-electro scene. XD; Totally won over, though: the most fun I've had at a show for ages. A. left with her friend after the Presets due to stomach upset, so I decided to make my way up front, and the mosh pit was completely mental - everyone squeezed together like drunken sardines and raring to dance, like splitting the difference between Booka Shade and Pixies. You know when the song playing is clearly everyone's FAVORITE SONG EVER? In fact the entire room was one big mosh pit. At the second-to-last song I managed to get a boost up from the tall guy standing next to me and surfed halfway back to the toilets. XD; After that I came back onto the balcony for "Hearts on Fire" and the crowd was doing that thing where everyone bounces up and down at once and looks like a swimming pool on the boil.

Actually, I would be comfortable calling Cut Copy "new rave", considering that they bear the same resemblance to the KLF as Arctic Monkeys do to... you see what I'm getting at, anyway. XD; Possibly the whole idea was a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's just kind of hilarious because I spent a decent chunk of this year listening to remixes of the Stone Roses by 808 State etc. etc., and everyone else was listening to this. OH WELL NEVER TOO LATE TO REJOIN THE 21ST CENTURY. And as PFork points out, they're impossible to dislike because they're so damned happy. It's like dudes made a list of every cheesy joy-inducing dance music noise and shoehorned them all into three minutes and a half, Snap diva sample plus New Order bass plus Eurotrance kickdrum plus Daft Punk filter plus handbag house synth plus plus plus more smiley yellow faces than Wal-Mart. Lead dude would sort of raise both hands with an air of beatific sincerity and be like, all right Montreal you know what to do, ONE TWO THREE FOUR

I did make the strategic decision to drink several beers before they came on. XD But bought the album and it still sounds just as good. BTW I seem to have crossed the Asian female threshhold to looking younger than one's chronological age rather than older, the teenaged indie kids I was sitting next to asked if I got carded for my drink. XD;


** Presets did not play "Girl and the Sea" however! I suppose it wouldn't have fit with the gaymo glam thing they're going with now. :/



P.S. Okay, now you're just dicking with us.