Velociraptor @ Frankie’s, 8th Nov

“By the time the latest six-piece incarnation of long-time faves Velociraptor take the stage, the party is off to the races. We can’t know that in less than 24 hours, Donald Trump will become the President-Elect of the US, but there’s a distinct feeling of the last party before the Apocalypse in the air. If the end must come, it should come to a soundtrack like this. The crowd, and especially the young lunatics in the front – “you’re drunk – I respect that”, comments Jeremy Neale – know what they’re getting tonight, and Frankie’s is once more turned into a frenzy made from dancing, grinning bunches of crazies. We get the old ones, we get the ones off the last record – including a barn-burning “Ramona” to close out – but best of all we get two new ones. One in particular, the gloriously-titled “Hunk With A Hunch” is apparently out imminently, and it’s the earworm your summer has been looking for. This is classic ‘Raptor, the chorus (and indeed most of the song) consisting of the words “uh-huh”, “yeah” and a whole fistful of key changes. They’re having a hoot playing it, and we all collectively lose our brains. As always, it’s reliably crazed, daft as a sack of badgers, and an absolute bloody pleasure.”

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