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Preview: Larrikin Love
by David Sue26/ 1/2007
WITH alternative guitar music becoming more and more absorbed
into the mainstream, it's left to new bands like Larrikin Love to
keep the underground, anti-corporate indie flame burning.
Not that the Twickenham four-piece would ever want to be seen as
militant ringleaders of the indie counter-culture - they're far too
ramshackle and disorganised for such a big role.
Rather, they're more in the vein of classic British pop eccentrics
living in their own other-wordly bubble, whose spiritual home will
always be some dingy students' union and whose status will always
be filed under "cult''.
Thankfully, there's a poeticism and romantic insight here which
marks them out of as a sort of anti-Arctic Monkeys, a band who
reject the current trend for social realism in favour of unhinged
fantasy.
Their debut album The Freedom Spark painted a starry-eyed world of
medieval entertainment, quaint English imagery, and all backed by a
soundtrack of Dexys-ish gipsy punk.
It's not the sort of thing which is likely to endear viewers of T4
on a Saturday morning, but maybe that's the point.
Larrikin Love play the Academy 3 on Thursday.
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