I’ve seen Does It Offend You, Yeah? before when they supported Hadouken! at the iTunes festival and quite liked them. Since then I’ve not really heard anymore about them but was happy to see them again.

Heaven is a nice venue, a long bar, alcoves with seating and great accoustics and lighting. It’s a subterreanian venue in the railway arches underneathy Charing Cross station and good pubs sit at either end of the arcade it’s situated on.

The first band on were incredible, they sounded very retro-electro, everything sounded polished, exciting and almost familiar, despite it being the first time I’d heard it. Sadly we only caught the trail end of them and I don’t even remember their name. I must find out!

The second band were called Trip whom I can only describe as Jamie T meets Hadouken!. Trip were good but I felt like they were not just not upto the musical standard of the first band and their lyrical and vocal style was in the vein of Jamie T but not as polished. So all in all I wasnt very impressed with them, though they definately have potential!

When Does It Offend You, Yeah? finally came out myself and Mish dived into the crowd and started to open up a bit of a pit-space amongst the indie limeys.

Does It Offend You, Yeah? were brilliant and I was quite drunk. I have to confess to not owning their album or properly knowing any of their songs, but I really enjoyed myself.

I will be buying their album with my next pay check!

I saw Alexisonfire last night at the HMV Forum, Kentish Town, London.

Alexisonfire were great and a great time was had by all. Thanks to Stokes for driving myself and Scott up there and it was good to see Sami and Ben in the crowd too.

Alexisonfire were supported at the HMV Forum by Ghost of a Thousand, who were pretty good and Anti-Flag who should really have been better considering how long they’ve been about. But still, a great night.