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Nemesis Webzine reviews Angelspit live at Slimelight, London.

ANGELSPIT LIVE

Angelspit
Ayria
Ego Likeness
Slimelight, London
Saturday October 6 2007

Now we come to our third band of the night, and just like the previous acts they hail from one of Olde England's former colonies. Angelspit represent Australia. They also represent a healthy dose of punk attitude, hard-wired to a theremin and some get-stuck-in-matey programming. You want a description in a nutshell? Try this: Angelspit are what would happen if you strapped the UK Subs to Einstein's theory of relativity, and sent them into the future with only a handful of Judge Dredd comics for company. There are two of them: gesticulating mightily at the theremin, clad in a substantial acreage of PVC, please welcome the mighty Zoog.

Meanwhile, keeping the sonic maelstrom under control at the vocal mic, and sporting somewhat more minimal PVC, I give you the no less mighty DestroyX. Just possibly these are not their real names, but the rampant racket they generate is entirely real. Angelspit deal in distortion, lots of it, and loud. Their songs thunder like an approaching road train; the electronics crackle like a creek bed in the sun. But it's not just formless noise. The songs are songs. Structure and architecture lurk in the commotion.
Suddenly, the commotion stops - the band's laptop has crashed, and taken the entire show down with it. For a moment it all goes a bit Paul Hogan, but the recalcitrant Mac (yep, it's a Mac - you see, they do crash!) is eventually rebooted and the noise kicks in again.

Angelspit manage to be both uncompromising and accessible at the same time. They seem vaguely threatening in their Mad Max cybergear, and yet you get the feeling they'd be great people to go to a party with. Just don't ask them to keep the noise down.

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