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| Photo credit to Consequence Of Sound |
Last night wasn't your typical, boring Monday evening with The Magic Gang in town. With their chilled out, indie, LA surf vibes I was surprised to hear that this quartet came from Brighton. With almost 200,000 listens collectively on Soundcloud across their other equally as infectious tunes, comparisons have been made to other bands such as Peace and Swim Deep, due to touring with them not so long ago and capturing a similar group of fans.
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Mayhem, in the most fashionable way possible, was inevitable for this band due to the box like boiler room of The Sunflower Lounge; movement was unavoidable due to the size of the place, even for the guys who like to stand at the back with a beer nodding for the entirety of a show. There was no playing safe at this gig; anywhere you stood you'd soon find yourself being hurtled around in a sea of excitable fans reciting every word of their snappy, memorable lyrics as if naturally rolling off the tongue without thought. (and possibly due to the sheer noise of the band making the room feel slightly unstable.)
The band were fully going for it, with the exception of having to make little announcements after songs telling the audience to 'be careful' after floods of crowd surfers were ungracefully thrown across the room, practically hitting their heads of the ceiling and kicking all of the stage lights on their way around; and the occasional wave of fans spilling face first onto the stage with the band lifting them up and bidding them farewell again into the mosh pit mid song.
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Sweat soaked members of the audience called for a predictable stage invasion to the Wheatus infused sounds of unmistakably contagious tracks - 'No Fun' and 'Alright', setting the scene for something in between wanting to effortlessly sway and plod along to their laid back riffs to the kind of hyped up, crazed energy that their gigs are known for. Their new song - 'She Doesn't See' gave us a possible teaser for their long awaited debut album that I hope will be coming out soon, encouraging just as much energy and uncontrollable singalongs as some of their older material. The set finished with a deafening orchestra of the crowd screaming the lyrics to 'Shallow' louder than the band themselves.
You can listen to their new, two day old song - 'She Doesn't See' on Soundcloud HERE
Written by Rosie Mulhern.
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