Music / indie
Review: Django Django, SWX
London-based four piece Django Django take to the stage amid a pretty projected light display – instantly familiar to anyone who has seen them live before. The colourful patterns swim across the faces of the band as they prepare to launch into Marble Skies – the upbeat, atmospheric leading single from the recently released third studio album of the same title.
The new single goes down a storm with the packed out SWX crowd – a mix of mature Radio 6 listeners and twenty-somethings. Thrilling latest single Tic Tac Toe is enjoyed by all, and the band declare their love for the city before unleashing psychedelic number First Light from the band’s second album – “it’s been too long Bristol!”
Support act Self Esteem A.K.A Rebecca Taylor from Slow Club is introduced back onto the stage to perform the new album single Surface To Air. Somewhere in the set, the band even pull out an old classic – asking everyone to sit down and jump up to get everyone dancing.
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Towards the end of the evening comes a cluster of four bangers from the debut, followed by an encore. Skies Over Cairo is an escalating synth-heavy mix of tribal drums and Ancient Egyptian-inspired melodies and is followed flawlessly by much-loved 2012 single Default – one of the songs which undeniably brought Django Django into the spotlight.
After hyping the crowd further by introducing themselves and their English-Scottish-Northern Irish origins, the band launch into a joyous rendition of Life’s A Beach, with its 60’s surf rock riffs. The lights fade to red to introduce the opening rumble and unmistakable sirens of Wor, much to the enjoyment of the crowd, and the band go out on a roaring high.
Routed in Django Django’s successful beginnings, the set is a blissful confirmation of the strength of latest album Marble Skies – experimental and eclectic as ever, yet unmistakably their own distinctive style.
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