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Yet, put such a dream team together and a curious thing becomes apparent. Despite the rather dapper vintage apparel, musically they’re as different as you could ever hope to imagine. iLiKETRAiNS, with their rather splendid beards, their disturbing songs about curtain-twitching stalkers and thwarted missions to the South Pole, and, above all, their truly searing walls of noise which cut through one like a knife, are a band who manage to take the now rather clichéd label of post-rock and raise it to an entirely new and suitably dark level. On the other hand, British Sea Power are anything but dour. This small and under promoted gig in one of the city’s smaller venues was organised as a means of testing out some new material. And if there’s one thing that can be said for British Sea Power fans, it is that they are very certainly committed.  | | British Sea Power |
From the moment lead singer Yan comes onto the stage clad in a rather impressive home made t-shirt which has daubed on the back of it ‘Nowt to answer for’ in homage to The Smiths, the legions of the devoted with their hedge clippings immediately begin leaping up and down howling for satisfaction which is duly earned. The new material itself doesn’t deviate from the tried and tested formula of brittle guitar-laden indie, but old favourites like Remember Me and Oh Larsen B are laid into with delicious gusto causing a mini mosh-pit to form at the front and leading the band to-quite literally-swing from the rafters at the end of the night . With the British music scene becoming a very bland place indeed, by the time the house lights came up and you peeled yourself away from the person next to you laden in sweat with fire in your eyes, you couldn’t help wondering why there aren’t more bands who sound like this. | 
