Five teenage boys are standing in a circle, arms locked around each others shoulders but this is no group hug.
They are all urinating into the centre.
They are ten metres away from the toilets.
Welcome to Leeds.
Grown Up Gossip & Internet Villainy
By Si Sharp
By Mof Gimmers
Gigs are boring aren’t they? Middle aged blokes with backpacks on throwing their arms around and singing all the words to the b-sides planted squarely in the middle of a throng of disaffected teens who aren’t sure whether to look like disaffected teens or really let loose and throw their bap and go nuts.
Such is the world we find ourselves in where everyone is too jaded to have a real good time before bands who aren’t sure if they’re supposed to be aloof or act like they’re your best friend on twitter.
Mercifully, most of that went out of the window last night when Mazes and Sub Pop’s Dum Dum Girls took to the stage in Manchester last night, providing, somewhat surprisingly, one of the most fun gigs of 2011.