Check out the live photos and review (all by Jim Sharples) below.
Read all about Enter Shikari and their new album in the upcoming issue of Big Cheese (no. 141, out Jan. 27th).
ENTER SHIKARI
LONDON BORDERLINE
5/5
“Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you!” sing the crowd of competition winners, band dudes (the Don Broco boys were most definitely in attendance, as well as Sam Duckworth, who’d hit the stage earlier on in the evening for a cheeky support slot) and various media types to birthday boy and, as of, today, owner of a number one album in the form of ‘A Flash Flood Of Colour’, Rou Reynolds. A cake’s brought on, a candle’s blown out and said confection is then launched into the face of a super-stoked crowd surfer. Make no mistake, tonight it’s utter mayhem up in here. Playing a variety of cuts from ‘…Colour’, including the massive ‘Sssnakepit’ and ‘Hello Tyrannosaurus, Meet Tyrannicide’ alongside live favourites such as ‘Juggernauts’, there’s a distinct celebratory vibe in the air. And for good reason: ‘A Flash Flood Of Colour’ is quite simply the best thing that the St. Albans lads have done. A record that has both a social conscience and a sense of humour (“Yabba dabba do one son” on ‘Gandhi Mate, Gandhi’ for example), the grand ideas of Shikari are now matched by their execution as the foursome throw guttural growls, serrated riffs, bowel-shaking drops and super-tech drumming into an already bubbling mix of passion, power and more than a little self deprecation as Rou scampers across the bar, passing the mic as he goes. Backed by an illuminated version of the album artwork that pulses and blinds with a barrage of lighting effects, tonight leaves us all half blind, half deaf and fully consumed.
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