Emma Warren - 01/02/07
It?s a Friday night outside Vice Magazine?s Old Blue Last in London?s still hip Shoreditch. Ridiculously youthful indie-poppers Cajun Dance Party are playing live, before a DJ set from hotly tipped Angolan/Portugese act Buraka Son Sistema.
It's also free. All of which adds up to a ram-jammed interior and a big queue of despondent 16-year-olds outside. Mostly, there to see fellow mid teens Cajun Dance Party and in fact many of them made it through the security until the venue became too packed and the bouncers did an ID sweep, latterly removing anyone without the required proof (or good enough fakes).
There is a panic at one point that he might not make it back for the hotly-tipped band's onstage slot. But happily for the throng inside, he bids farewell to his friends, squeezes his way through and spearheads a frenetic 30 minute set which sees the excitement shiver all the way through the crowd queuing (again) on the stairs.
First up is their jingly, Cure-nodding hit-in-waiting, 'Colourful Life', followed by an even bigger hit-in-waiting, their new single 'The Next Untouchable'. A few new songs, then one of their Myspace demo's, the jaunty Amylase.
It's heaving. It's hot. And it'd be pretty hellish if it wasn't for the talent and energy of Britain's youngest favourite new band. There are hundreds of camera phones in the air throughout (phones are the new lighters, of course), ready to be shared and uploaded for anyone who didn't make it ? and those that nearly did.
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