Freaking Out Neighbours

On 11 March, LFC played host to Eight Legs' single launch party for 'Freaking Out The Neighbours' at 93 Feet East on Brick Lane. It was also their UK homecoming after an extensive, sold-out (as good as) tour of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Their 45-minute set saw them air their forthcoming debut album 'Searching For The Simple Life' (out next month through Weekender Records) in its entirety, alongside a handful of B-sides. Highlights included the aforementioned single, which was dispatched early on, the punchy, concise and punk-spirited 'Pass The Bucket' (see clip from the gig below) and the more and more regal sounding set-closer 'These Grey Days' - the song which soundtracked the Christian Dior fashion show a couple of years back and subsequently thrust these four lads from Shakespeare country into the public limelight.



Their romantic, jingly-jangly sound certainly recalls seminal British groups of the 1980s such as The Smiths and The Cure, but at times it also possesses a punkier, meaner edge which references the likes of The Stooges, The Clash and latterly The Libertines. Fans of any of these bands could do a lot worse than to check out Eight Legs - ones to keep a beady little eye on in 2008 they are indeed.

myspace.com/eightlegs

Support on the night came from firm LFC favourites Right Turn Left, the Exeter based quartet who specialise in outrageously hook laden, tight-as-a-bolt, charismatic and literate three minute indie-pop songs (See 'Sloe Gin', 'Comic Book Picture' for starters), a la Good Shoes, Maccabees, Wombats - a formula which has seen them break out of their local scene onto stages as far afield as Paris' illustrious Fleche d'Or venue in a remarkably short space of time.

Sure, it's been done plenty of times before and isn't going to reinvent any wheels, but these guys look the part and quite simply do it a lot better than most. There'll always be room for new music when such boxes are ticked. Watch out for more LFC appearances from this bunch later on in the year...

myspace.com/rightturnleft