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Review: Bloody Knees - Live at the Old Blue Last
Indie | Monday 10th March 2014 | Claire
On Wednesday I found myself standing in a darkened room upstairs at the Old Blue Last in Shoreditch, sipping on a cold Red Stripe whilst a grungey sound reminiscent of Wavves, FIDLAR and an unnaturally tight Misfits fused Weezer, filled my ear holes in all its slacker rock glory.
Bloody Knees are four sexy individuals all hailing from Cambridge. These guys are difficult to confine to one definitive genre. They are fuzzing about somewhere between punk and lo-fi, although their undeniably scuzzy sound is so unbelievably tight that it's almost a case of square peg round hole here. But as it happens, I am all for jamming square pegs into round holes and the fact these lads are undefinable is one of the things fans have come to expect.
'And I feel dead, just wanna get back in bed, just wanna get back in bed,' was a lyric from their new song 'Bedtomb' I could particularly relate to that evening, after having just worked an eleven day week, quite frankly at that point I was struggling to be alive. Just as I was starting to wonder why my third beer hadn't kicked in yet, the crowd burst into some sort of mental mosh pit, causing me to have to save the life of my overpriced beverage.
Chinning each other and skanking all over the shop the crowd went temporarily ballistic. Bloody Knees fans are evidently as unpredictable as the music and their sudden influx of energy even got me moving.
When it was all over, I left feeling uplifted, slightly sweaty and actually a bit nostalgic. I'd not seen a mosh pit since my days on the metal scene, back when we would pester strangers to go into the off license for us and buy us cheap alcohol and cigarettes, purely because we had nothing better to do and thought it was cool. Not because we were embarking on this eleven day working week nonsense that is now my life, where alcohol and cigarettes are more a mid-week coping mechanism than a fun Friday night.
Regardless of my trip down memory lane, big things are happening for these boys. They have already released an E.P and have performed at Reading Festival, as well as being featured by the likes of NME, Vice, Fly and Radio 1. The lads have also been venturing cross country on countless tours and more recently, Brad (vocals) has become a model. I wasn't kidding when I said they were sexy individuals. Their E.P. has even been released in Japan which is cool as fuck if you ask me and if that doesn't say up and coming I don't know what does.
To sum up, Bloody Knees are a sexy, international, undefinable entity. And when the Harijuku girls of Japan hang up their tutus in favour of ankle grazing Levis and Doc Martens you can say you heard it here first.
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- Claire Fletcher
