This was a big night, there has been so much anticipation and build up to Fuck Buttons biggest performance in London to date, after the huge success of last year’s Tarot Sport sitting around the top half of almost every album of the year chart that matters (including gaining number one in our own top ten) the Bristol noise duo can do no wrong and with that they step into the big leagues all but selling out venues more adverse to putting on NME nights and fashionable indie bands than the pummelling beats of the Buttons but their more refined sound caters so well for venues of this size.
Factory Floor provided an ample support slot blending heavy as hell beats with full on noise that seemed hard to digest at first but a few songs in I really started to get it. With the stage almost completely black bar a spotlight on each member of the three piece, their on stage presence matched the dark, heavy sounds and pulled off a great set.
Their show at Heaven a few months ago really raised the bar in terms of performance and output and was easily one of the highlights of the year so this gig had a lot to live up to. Fortunately as is so often the case with Fuck Buttons it did, As the mighty duo appeared on stage, Andrew Hung fashioning a remarkable bubble hat and Benjamin Power looking totally focused on the job at hand there was about two seconds silence before ploughing straight into opener Surf Solar, as the booming bass kicked in I knew there was no way I would be leaving tonight with my hearing intact, they really were making the most out of the sound. It was great to see such a remarkable reaction from the crowd, as what used to be the case with Fuck Buttons gigs most people didn’t know whether to dance, cry or just stand there bewildered but these days, now that people have had time to digest such a powerful sound you turn up to a show and there are fans covered in u.v. gear, climbing walls and going nuts, everywhere you looked there were people dancing and moving, What with that and
the inclusion of a new light show the atmosphere created was immense.
Old songs such as ‘Okay, Let's Talk About Magic’ and ‘Colours Move’ were played about with live with Hung and Power mixing things up a little creating a refreshing outlook for the avid fan that’s seen those songs played dozens of times, their hypnotic onslaught didn’t let up, the duo left no space for fans to even think, blaring out hit after hit before the epic finale of ‘flight of the feathered serpent’ finally giving time to digest everything you have just witnessed before their trademark encore ‘Sweet Love For Planet Earth’ which sounds heavier and more gruesome than ever before.
Words : Gordon Reid
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