By his personal admission, Olli Appleyard is drained. “I fucked myself up this weekend,” he says – the results of their triumphant appearances at Studying and Leeds, the latter on house turf, lower than 48 hours earlier than tonight’s sold-out present. Each appearances are rights of passage for Static Costume, who're touring their self-released album Rogue Carpet Catastrophe and proving themselves as post-hardcore stars of tomorrow.
Opener Fleahouse units the tone: two seconds in and the moshpit has already opened. The gang’s vitality appears to be restorative for Appleyard, who asks the group to assist him sing, one thing the punters are solely too completely happy to do. Again and again it’s the neighborhood surrounding Static Costume who actually make the gig a hit. Tracks reminiscent of fan favorite Candy grow to be karaoke moments, and the regular stream of crowd surfers and stage divers factors in the direction of a confidence and sense of security that the band evokes in its followers.
The issue Static Costume have tonight is one among momentum. Their bold world-building method to recorded music sadly doesn’t at all times work dwell. A voiceover performs each two to 3 songs, unfurling some kind of narrative, however the voice is so distorted it’s not possible to observe alongside. And each time one other one begins, the lights go down, followers begin chatting and the magic is momentarily misplaced. In the direction of the tip of the set, a dancer randomly seems on stage, lined in blood, to flail alongside to an instrumental for 2 minutes after which disappear once more. There’s a variety of bold storytelling that lacks a standard denominator to carry all of it collectively.
It’s telling that when the band depart earlier than their encore, nobody recognises that it’s time to cheer them again on as a result of they’ve left and are available again a number of instances already. Nonetheless, the joyful carnage begins up once more as quickly as they reappear. Tighten up the tech, lose not less than a little bit of the meta narrative and so they’ll be dominating far larger phases than this one earlier than lengthy.
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