So Beyond Retro, eh? It's a warehouse packed to the gills with glorified charity shop wares and the odd delight that makes me regret all those years of eating little else than Wagon Wheels.
So why is everybody always on about it? Perhaps it could be the fact that it's in a crumbling warehouse and is next to a nice pub? Naaah, it's probably because they invite amazing bands to play matinees to distract you from staring lovingly at belts.
Comanechi are this week's distraction with a seventeen minute set that would rip you right up, sunshine. Armed with temporary babyfaced drummer Adam (I think? Either way he was on for two minutes) their set is if anything gleefully shambolic and juvenile. But that's what makes them so fun anyway - compare them to drumming yelpsmith Akiko's other band PRE: if Comanechi are playing with a lighter and is wondering what kinds of mischief they could do with it, then PRE have already burnt down the school and are heading dangerously towards the petrol station. Instead of laying on the noise to the point of asphyxiation they make you a bit light headed but you're home for tea.
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