The alliGATOR!

Last night we got out to Audio in Brighton to see avant garde psychedelic rock nutter Pop Levi. GREAT gig. Pop has a stunning live presence, mixing saucy posturing, robotics and bowie-esque stances, while tearing out hendrix/prince style noodly guitar solos. The rest of the band are equally weird, with the guitarist adopting similar mad facial hair and starey eyeliner gaze, and the bass player like someone plucked straight from a monochrome sixties beat combo. Only the drummer had a semblance of normality about his appearance, but even there, his beats were like a non-stop thumping machine. From the opening 10 minute extended intro of 'Sugar Assault Me' it was all top fuzz-bass Led-Zepalike madness. Nice one.