NME is the bible for most 17-year-olds as they desperately attempt to stay at the front of the pack of followers of today's trendy music (as determined by who? why, NME, of course). i kind of missed the whole NME phase of my teenage life on account of being surrounded by good charlotte obsessed americans in my tiny little high school bubble (which, on the upside, does mean that i know they were capable of making decent records before they became MTV-darlings and released songs like 'i just wanna live'). So i was both slightly apprehensive about what i might encounter on the glasgow leg of NME's club tour last thursday and excited to see how well, if at all, the klaxons could transfer their ecclectic electronic style from 80s-looking music videos to a live set. admittedly, i did help raise the average age of the girls in the audience by a couple of years but i still have to give NME credit for drawing attention to some of these acts. i think its time for electro-rock, glowsticks, and 80s hair (the big curls, NOT the mullet) to make a comeback...
... and what beats waving glowsticks about and dancing around without following the beat even the slightest? in my opinion, not much... which is why this gig was fab. the klaxons could have done with playing a longer set (30min? that's not even a full album!!) but they sounded brilliant. glaswegian shitdisco, clearly a local favorite of the crowd, were really impressive (despite the poor choice of name) and sounded wicked!
and thus, for a short while, it was like i was 17 and believing that NME is, in fact, the music bible. i predict this belief will only be temporary... NME will clearly run a story soon that has the automatic on the cover with a headline along the lines of 'the automatic will do what arctic monkeys didn't: break america' and anyone over the age of 17 (or at least with a mental age over 17...) know for a fact that the automatic will never have another top 10 hit, let alone break america... but for now, i am quite happy to go along with the electro-beats of NME's latest sweethearts because, this time at least, they seem to have gotten it right...
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