Four Tet Live @ Indigo2 Club, London – 24th April 2008
Last night Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet rocked the Indigo2 Club in Greenwich, London with an awesome set as part of the Eat Your Own Ears series.
The crowd included old and young faces, men and women, all to witness Four Tet play his wondeful experimental, melodic, glitchy electronica house music.
He politely waited on the side of the stage for the dj to finish before making an understated entrance to warm applause and cheers. No rock ‘n’ roll late entrance or making the crowd wait for his presence. Bang on time Fourtet took to the centre of the stage carrying only two bottles of water & greeted his fans with a wave.
The set started with a long slow burning version of the title track from his new mini album, The Ringer. It was enough to grab everyone’s attention. But it was the rocking A Joy that the front of the audience began to bob up and down like they were at a Motorhead gig!
Four Tet grooved around obviously enjoying himself and his music as much as the audience, as he twiddled and played with electronic digital equipment and a laptop to great effect. The maestro at work, each track was introduced by a familiar melody, beat or scratchy clicks and the audience loved it.
This was my first visit to the Indigo2 Club inside the O2 Arena. A purpose-built venue with good facilities, easy access to the stage and bar, clean toilets and best of all a brilliant sound.
Four Tet was every bit as good as I had anticipated; and judging by the audience reaction, I probably wasn’t the only one left wondering how we could get Kieran Hebden to play more live gigs.
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1 Johnny G // Apr 25, 2008 at 11:25 pm
I was there too and it was fantastic. There were men and women!
Sounded great, wished I was more out of it – it was a cool set