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Spinnerette – Live

Future Of The Left
Islington Academy

23.02.09

Gaining noteriety as the punk world’s pin-up girl, you may have been forgiven for expecting some dirty spat-out songs delivered by Brody Dalle and her new group Spinnerette, however the crowd at the Islington Academy got something very different to that.

After Future Of The Left had bantered their way through the support slot, Dalle and her new charges entered the fray in what can only be described as an underwhelming affair.

The venue didn’t help – the bass was set far too high, bludgeoning the melodies and rendering any intricate details of songs useless and the atmosphere, as ever at the Islington Academy, was pretty non-existant. That said, the band didn’t really do much to overcome this, they were static and simply stood and played whilst hoping that Dalle would get the crowd excited.

There were a couple of good tracks, taken from their debut EP, but without knowing the majority of the set, there was no chance for the gig goers to sing along or get involved. At the very end of the show, when Dalle had gone into the crowd, the lights came on and someone had been trampled underfoot, the realisation dawned that this was a punk as it was going to get. This band may have legs, but perhaps this gig came too soon for them to prove themselves.

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