Casually sauntering through the crowd onto the stage, opening with their latest album’s title track ‘Sleep Forever’ – almost instantly getting a great crowd reaction, building up to tonight’s chaotic atmosphere. Followed by a complaint about the lights from cooler-than-thou front man Brendon Welchez, claiming that they were hurting his eyes and “showing his zits.” Their performance lasted only a mere 40 minutes. Disappointingly short for a headline slot.
Though within their short set they fuzzed through some great tracks, including debut album classics such as ‘Neon Jesus’ and tonight’s closer ‘I Wanna Kill’ in addition to new album crowd pleasers such as ‘Hearts of Love’ and ‘Mirrors’ with its fuzzy, distorted guitar riffs and wall of synthesizers. Tonight’s performance even contained a rant from Welchez about commercial radio, claiming that it is good that we have a good radio station that doesn’t only play songs from mainstream artists such as Rihanna and Lady Gaga.
Drawing the gig to it’s finale, Crocodiles were on top form. Hopefully they’ll announce a full UK tour soon, in which case you should definitely catch them live if possible before they are no longer playing to tiny crowds in such small venues.
Jonathan Hatchman.
http://counteract-magazine.com/2011/02/24/crocodiles-barfly-london-210211/
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