Live Review

Kate Nash – Glasgow Barrowlands

• 18th Mar 2008

Supporting Kate Nash the choicely named Black Kids entered the stage and drew a generous reception from the crowd, comprised mostly of starry-eyed teenage girls.
The Florida-based Indie rockers have been gaining an overwhelming amount of ‘blog buzz’ over the past few months, which is easy to understand upon hearing their EP ‘Wizard of Ahhhs’.
Opening with ‘Hit The Heartbrakes’ followed by ‘Listen To Your Body Tonight’, the audience immediately begin to enjoy the indie-pop rhythm and glimpses of R n B on offer.
‘Hurricane Jane’ and ‘I Wanna Be Your Limousine’ draw rapturous applause from the crowd with the group putting in an impressive performance.
Kevin Snow’s drumming proves to be the backbone of the songs, with Owen Holmes’s bass growling out and helping Black Kids to maintain that knack of making anyone in the vicinity dance. Although with the cliental in question that was never going to be too difficult.
Reggie Youngblood in particular is a hit with the crowd, as is his younger sister Ali, who between them, manage to carry enough charisma for the entire five-piece.
Their set was only half an hour, but Black Kids gave a more than worthy account of themselves and by the looks of things have gained a fair amount of new fans.

Kate Nash comes with all the right press behind her. NME and Brit award winner, and to top it all off a number one album, it certainly suggests that her legions of prepubescent female fans are in for a treat.
When Miss Nash Enters the stage the noise, as one would expect, is immense with just about every person in the venue (including some of the men) screaming their heads off.
Kate’s stage presence is that of what you would expect from a 20 year old girl, energetic, excitable and presumably very happy to be there. However the connection between performance and audience is clear and does help create a pleasant atmosphere.
Sporting a sequence top, Kate switches occasionally from keyboard to guitar, keeping rhythm extremely well on both. Single ‘Foundations’ goes down a treat, as does other album highlight ‘Mouthwash.’
The evening proceeds to be as poptastic as one might expect with Kate continually belting out tracks from her Debut album ‘Made Of Bricks’.
Dismissed by many as above average Lilly Allen impersonator, Nash continues to prove that she certainly doesn’t play second fiddle when it comes to live shows, and tonight leaves all of her starry-eyed fan base pleading for more.