Maupa/Skatar: The Windmill 15/11/08
Monday, December 1st, 2008Lancashire’s Maupa sound great. The singer has an excellent voice and they have very good tunes. The songs tonight are a little all over the place though, with the first few sounding like The Strokes and the last few sounding like Spiritualized wig-outs. Not a major complaint however, as they do both well. I’ll be checking their album out, The Minor Highs and the Major Lows.
Iceland’s Skatar appear onstage wearing skimpy gold hotpants, silver spandex leggings, bad haircuts and facial hair. They make a beautiful, chaotic racket and leave the crowd completely bemused. A drummer, two guitarists and a keyboard player, the sound they make is hard to describe, but if you get a chance, see them. In between songs they joke about Iceland’s economy and are genuinely entertaining.