Live
< Metronomy at Central Station, Wrexham
words by Reef Younis
Metronomy take to the stage like a Kraftwerk wet dream - the shirt and tie regimentation a distant glint in their trio of electric spotlight t shirts. Banality and formality have no homes here - the ominous sound of the ghost house, the mordancy of Joy Division and dark 80s disco wholeheartedly do. That still doesn’t stop Metronomy from shifting between the Eurythmics, the sax addled chaos of Madness and three part Bee Gees harmonies while simultaneously, fantastically, throwing shapes in unison with their blinking t shirts.
“Can I have some smoke? Plenty of smoke please… and no lights. That’s how I like it,” lead Metronomer Joe Mount politely, if chillingly, requests. A prancing troupe of Dr. Who nemeses, Mount, Oscar Cash and Gabriel Stebbing cavort and cajole a crowd reaction with their mini Tardis of instruments and a tub-thumping spotlight war dance. The jaunty, sea shanty style cover of ‘Toxic’ gets some absent mindedly shimmying but the jittery ‘Radio Ladio’ with its scrotum flinchingly crisp falsetto and glitchy, electro gremlinery makes you want to dry hump the nearest glitter ball.
‘You Could Easily Have Me’ lurches like a Benny Hill skit in a K-hole and closes the set in exactly the right way - jagged and perfectly irksome, Metronomy make a racket like no one else.
Originally appeared in volume 1, issue 29 of Loud & Quiet magazine
