The marketing material for this year's Liverpool Music Week takes on a roll-up, roll-up music hall theme so what better place to launch the four weeks of gigs than at the cornucopia of underground style The Kazimier.
Tonight festival organisers have booked Los Angeles all girl four piece Warpaint to launch this year's festivities and expectation is high among the clued up music fans in the audience.
Warpaint have been making waves for a few years now, especially back home in LA, but following the release of their 6 track EP Exquisite Corpse back in 2009 and subsequent sign up to Rough Trade records the girls have been riding on the crest of those waves to reach the UK and Europe.
Word had definitely spread and there was a real buzz in the busy venue before the band took to stage. Playing songs from their new album The Fool, their set was one right out of the top drawer. Dreamy, almost distant vocals, throbbing bass lines, looping guitar melodies all tied together with choppy drum patterns, these are the kind of songs that should feature in a dark teenage movie soundtrack, the kind of movie with vampires and thunderstorms. Highlights of the night were the subtle 'Undertow' from the new album along with the more familiar 'Elephants' and 'Stars' which received the strongest reaction from the crowd.
After a few drummer changes in the past, the appointment of Stella Mozgawa to the stool has been a masterstroke. She was easily the star of the night and at one point she was drumming so fast I thought we may break the sound barrier. Stella even swapped with guitarist Theresa Wayman in the encore for a two minute screaming rock out, superb.
Warpaint - The Fool is out on 25th October
The launch night of LMW provided a first class start to what should be a cracking month of music
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