Fight Like Apes
Levi's Ones To Watch gig at Barfly, Liverpool
Someone try and stop this band... about to support The Prodigy on their long-awaited UK tour after being hand-picked by Keith when he saw them supporting the Ting Tings. Fight Like Apes' meteoric blaze to stardom knows no bounds.
Gig-heads you should have turned out to watch them in intimate settings while you can. What is it about these Levi's Ones To Watch gigs, how much longer can they be the best kept secret of emerging music talent?.. seriously people - if you want to know who's going to be hot in the next six months, you need to go to one of these shows.
Only about 40 or 50 people saw Fight Like Apes headline the shamelessly dirty and dingy Barlfy, but that didn't stop them calling everyone to the front. They
unleashed the most brutal, primal and beautiful assault on the ears, combined with a dark sense of humour.
Escaping from the Irish underground this band are deliciously 'out there,' aggressive, but still fun and with enough inventiveness to rupture a few spleens.
Their energy live is unrelentless, smashing, kicking and hammering their instruments to get the best sounds they can muster. Fight Like Apes are also an intriguing visual treat.
Gothic lead singer MayKay, comical but scary keyboard player Pockets flashing his light goggle glasses, a big-haired bass player who isn't afraid to wear both a headband and sweatband, and a drummer who looks like he should be in the first wave of punk-rock chic.
During their set the band will get the audience to waltz to I'm Beginning To Think You Prefer Beverly Hillls 90210 To Me and during Jake Summers Maykay will wander through the crowd before falling to the floor to sing "Hey baby you were the bedroom king, Well I'm so sorry for breaking your ding-a-ling-a-ling." Obviously not a woman to be messed with lads.
Fight Like Apes' whole show is perversely wrong, and all the better for it. I suspect they would be great fun to drink with, but they would end up chaining you to a lamp post, stripping you naked and ramming a hot poker up your backside.
And as wrong as that is, they would make it seem like a lot of fun. This after all is a band who are happy to sing "Did you fuck her, and did you stick things up her?" whilst aggressive synths create a wall of electro noise... it seems both natural, funny and horrendously right.
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