I'm going to put it out there right now, I don't like Koko. I think it's an over hyped venue whereby everywhere you stand you're pretty much guaranteed a bad view if any of the band, I don't like the fact that wherever you are it feels claustrophobic and totally cramped but I guess what really gets me is the fact that they now charge £4.20 for one can of beer when you can literally walk down the road to an off license and get nearly four cans for the same price.
Ok that's my moan over because to be fair, I would sacrifice all of those annoyances every single night of the week if it meant I could watch a show as fantastic as Frightened Rabbit were tonight. This was their biggest headline show in the capital to date and it was fair to say the band were slightly humbled by this fact, lead man Scott Hutchinson stopping on a few occasions just to take it all in, things are happening very fast for the biggest thing to come out of Selkirk since...Well I'm not really sure what. Their third album, the Winter Of Mixed Drinks was out a few days before the gig already to huge critical acclaim with all the right people taking about how this could be the big one, Their live show has changed drastically for this album as they welcomed two new members to the band making sure that the venue was full of sound with head honcho Hutchinson throwing himself around the stage and joking with the crowd at every opportunity.
Every time I listen to ‘The Winter of Mixed Drinks’ it does make me realise how close these guys are to having a record that will be adored by the masses in the same way Fleet Foxes were a few years ago, they seem to have that rare ability to write a fantastic song that bridges that neat little gap between something that will be loved equally by pop and alternative crowds alike. The success of Midnight Organ fight is very apparent tonight with the near sold out crowd going nuts every time a song from the album is played, to their loyal fanbase this will always be the album closer to their hearts than anything else with Organ Fight capturing the feeling of that first break up so perfectly it’s almost painful to listen, songs like ‘The Modern Leper’ are backed tonight by the 1,000 or so fans screaming every single word back to them as if it were them that had written it and given time to sink in you can just imagine anthems from the new album such as ‘Swim Until You Can't See Land’ and ‘The Wrestle’ going down with similar outcomes. The extra members that have been added to the band on this album really make their sound a lot more broad and makes for a more full live performance.
I’ve waited a long time to see Frightened Rabbit and tonight really did feel like the night where people started to take note and realise how big these guys could well be very soon. The finale came courtesy of ‘Keep Yourself Warm’ which was the only proper way to end the gig, it’s big crescendo with very open, very frank lyrics. Fantastic
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