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CMU Reviews @ The Great Escape Festival Reviews
Live Review: Darwin Deez at The Great Escape 2010 on 13 May
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 20 May 2010
Like an 80s workout video, energy and ironic attire were in abundance as the new and unlikely poster boy for NME, Darwin Deez, thrilled the packed crowd at Horatio’s.
Determined to have as much fun as the audience, he rifled through his jangling pop-happy indie repertoire to adoring fans, only pausing for breath to lead an orchestrated dance-off between fellow stage sharers.
Syncopation being key to the band, it was no surprise that when they closed with ‘Radar Detector’ an inclusive and unspoken invitation evoked a full-scale stage invasion, full of shape-throwing revellers. AS
