Wild Beasts / Paper Planes @ The Arches 29/09/09

Written by admin on October 2nd, 2009

Wild Beasts find themselves playing the creepy underground tunnels of Glasgow’s Arches tonight as part of Topman CTRL music series, a concept where a different act each month ‘controls’ the line-up. Even though they are currently slogging across the US tonight’s event is being curated by French electro-popsters Phoenix who play this very same venue at the back end of October.

The show has been cleverly grafted onto the front of Wild Beats full UK tour that starts in Edinburgh tomorrow. However, this late addition to the tour has been detrimental to the turn out with many fans having purchased tickets to the Edinburgh date that went on sale months before tonight’s announcement. Tonight was also meant to feature awesome XL artist Blue Roses, the disappointment of her no-show is substantially cushioned by the confirmation of a rumoured Captains Rest show for November 8th.

Support this evening comes from local art punk talent Paper Planes, who are visually increasing in confidence with every show they play. Their charged set is a sneaky preview of what is sure to be a cracker of an evening for their ‘Doris Day’ single launch down at the swanky Grand Ole Oprey on Thursday 8th of October. The night will also feature She’s Hit and DJ sets from Stephen Pastel from “The Pastels” and Gerry Love from “Teenage Fanclub”.

Leeds based Wild Beasts come to Glasgow with praise rightly being heaped on them from all angles following the release of highly acclaimed second album Two Dancers. The bands interchanging of vocals, from guitarist Hayden Thorpe’s unmistakable falsetto to the more classic indie rock vocals of bassist Tom Fleming, keeps the crowd more than interested as the band cruise through a set infectious indie rock tracks occasionally touching the edges of glam.

Last single ‘Hooting & Howling’ is the set’s stand out, as the band continue a tradition of strong singles, the building anthem with Thorpe’s looping vocals digs deep into the listeners conscience.

The band originally from Kendal nail every song and prove that they are indeed worthy of the hype, this lot are going places and your going to want to go along for the ride, mint cake is no longer the tastiest treat to come out of the picturesque lake district town.