Fuck Shoreditch/Hoxton is confusing. More venues in this wee area than the rest of London possibly England possibly the world put together - and they keep changing their name which doesn't help a jot either...
Anyway - Hoxton Bar & Grill - if you manage to get past the super-pouting bouncer and struggle through the braying drunken pub crowds you'll find behind a magicians secret blackout curtain a baby venue. Fight Like Apes are who we've come to see - Singer Kaymay with a voice that could easily be throwing power ballads at the higher echelons of the charts (though she would surely gob on the front row of Wembley Arena when she got therE) is instead fronting an angst-ridden punky synth-heavy and sod your manky guitars style band.Their set grows in front of you with building blocks of Vangelis style sweeping and soaring synths and bass and drums until it can't help but let loose the pure pop behind it all towards us - an unwitting audience tantalized and at the same time scared by the pots and pans throwing (yes really) band and lead singer Kaymay with her Grudge/Ring style presentation - crawling over monitors and amps towards you with her hair dangling menacingly - oh is she going to make that scary croaky strangly noise? no....it's alright. it's dulcet.
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