Pop joyness is what I wanted, and that’s pretty much what I got. Joy all round and a great atmosphere made this show really quite good fun, despite the horribly early end to the fun.With a lead singer definitely inspired by the ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go’ video, Alphabeat lead by example: smiles everywhere with handclaps and tambourines to boot. This proves very infectious to a crowd of surprisingly differing ages. Everything from 14 to 50 seemed to be covered, and most seemed to really enjoy what they were hearing.
All that was missing was some streamers and party poppers.
They were lovely and polite too - the type of people that would be really good fun to hang out with. Imagine tree climbing, picnics and sing-a-longs, preferably to Disney classics. I know I do.
Playing quite a short set – 9 songs and an encore jamboree featuring all other acts that came before them most of the audience were probably left wanting more – I was. Still, it was a rather good cover of Daft Punk’s Digital Love. Fascination being played just before that meant things were well and truly euphoric by the end, and rightly so.
The band clearly get a kick out of performing, smiling and bobbing away. The music itself is quite infectious too, even if it was a little less poppy that I was expecting for a little while towards the start of the gig. That all went with the double wammy of 10,000 Nights and What is Happening.
A full-blown headline gig by this lot would certainly not to be missed. Get your friends down, listen to your favourite songs excessively in the build up and throw back and dance, clap, smile and be happy!
They do Denmark proud.
By Ben Hayes
