The Bays at Concorde 2

Last night, it seemed that no one under the age of 25 had heard or experienced the excellence and majesty that is The Bays at the Concorde 2 (why they bother keeping the number I'll never know). It was a bit of a late for a band as the line-up had some very experimental warm-up acts including Fidgital (great name but the violin and hip-hop starty-stoppy act wasn't my bag), Puncture Kit (I don't remember seeing them stage but apparently use a bicycle as a bass drum. Wouldn't the spokes get in the way?) and new favourite Brighton DJ for us, Natural Self. Most of the crowd waiting the Bays were enjoying the DJ who I could only describe as using those moody, breakbeat, tech-step (I have just created a new music genre?) rhythms and sounds that perhaps DJ Shadow or UNKLE used to use. I see he's done his own hip hop album taking on himself to do rap vocals. Checking out his Myspace page and the featured tunes are not the dance pace we experienced so a tiny bit disappointing. Quite liked his 'In the Morning' track remixed by Paul White though. Will definitely look out for his future DJ sets.

Finally, The Bays came out in a cloud of smoke and moody blue light with some grooving house beats and built the atmosphere up like a mind-reading super DJ. Its a real shame they don't sell any albums as the house 4/4, breakbeat, into drum and bass sounds really did hypnotise us. Since we saw them at the first Loop festival, we've never been in the right place at the right time for their other ground-breaking stuff like their live soundtrack performance to Run Lola Run or their collaboration with the Heritage Orchestra. I've taken some video footage and will upload it at some point if its any good. In the meantime there's some great YouTube stuff out like the example below: