Fight Like Apes - gig review

And it seems that I also forgot to link up my ATL review of Fight Like Apes from before Christmas. Whoops. So there it is.

Anyone familiar with Fight Like Apes shouldn't be at all surprised to read that it was a brilliant gig. They never don't do brilliant gigs. They're one of my all-time favourite live bands, anywhere, for sure. If you manage to go to one of their gigs and come out anything other than a huge sweating, grinning, exhausted mess, then you're doing it wrong. They are more fun than should be legal, to be honest. Even though it was a really quiet night, numbers wise, thanks to the uncanny impression of Siberia that our climate was doing at the time, it didn't take long for everyone to let go and have an absolute ball.

And what I love about FLApes, aside from their absolutely cracking music, fantastic party atmosphere (I mean, they get people waltzing. WALTZING), boundless energy and enthusiasm and their consistency to always deliver, is that they seem so lovely. They have the whole crazy rock persona thing down, but they all - MayKay especially - just seem so nice and lovely and appreciative of their audience that you can't fail to be endeared. I mean, they gave a guy a present cos he was on his way to their cancelled gig in Derry the night before when he found out it was off, and managed to make it to the Belfast show instead after finishing work. That's the kind of gratitude and affection you don't often see from a band to their fans.

But, I could enthuse here about them all day, frankly, so I'll just leave it at that for the time being and save the rest for the next time I see them live!