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REVIEW gig Mystery Jets Electric Brixton

Mystery Jets, Electric Brixton, London

Published by Lindsay Melbourne

Fresh from reviewing Mystery Jets latest album 'Curve of the Earth' we're here to see them bring the album to a sold out homecoming show at Brixton's Electric. Walking out to an intro tape of samples that introduce some of the new album tracks, they started things off with recent single 'Telomere', whilst this got a great reaction it was second track 'Serotonin' from the album of the same name which really got everybody moving.

Now on their fifth album the Jets have such a catalogue to choose from that when they can just throw in massive tunes like 'Flash a Hungry Smile' and golden oldie 'Half in Love with Elizabeth' early on getting huge sing-alongs before showcasing some more of the new album.

There has been a lot of talk about 'Curve...' heralding back to some of the proggy elements of their first album, which is reinforced when guitarist Will Rees proclaims "who said prog is dead!".

What is really apparent though is how much bigger and punchier these new songs sound live, this in turn is helped by the sound system at Brixton Electric which is usually set up for dance/club nights but is the perfect set up to show off some of the proggy and heavy elements of 'Bombay Blue' and 'Bubblegum' which got the first crowd surfer of the night, he was circling the crowd for the whole song, nice work!

After what was only around 10 songs they finished the set with 'Alice Springs' which had everyone singing along and wanting more, which they duly provided, 4 more! We were particularly pleased to hear first album tune 'You can't Fool Me Dennis', which whilst a favourite of ours and nice to hear it went to show how far Mystery Jets have developed their sound into what it is today. 'Two Doors Down' provided the biggest sing/dance a long and 'Flakes' closed things nicely.

What a perfect Tuesday night. Mystery Jets have shown that Curve of the Earth is one of those albums that really comes to life live and we're looking forward to hearing these songs again when they play at Great Escape Festival in May.

Photographs Lindsay Melbourne

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