First things first, The Industry is a shit venue. The Upstairs is full of irritating yuppiesque architect types, drinks are expensive and Plum Promotions have their sticky little fingers deeply in the pie. It seemed that tonight wasn’t promoted at all. The
I hadn’t heard of The USA before and came along because my friend's band will be going on tour with them soon. First impression: wow, there’s a toy robot onstage. And some nicely naff looking keyboards. Unsurprisingly, they were really rather good! Aforementioned keyboards were put to fun use, the robot (I have since found out he is known as Emilio The Friendly Robot) was clutching a comic and his eyes flashed every now and then. I think he even said ‘Thank You’ once. Hooray! Every band should get one!
I have since looked The USA up on Myspace and learned that they’re brother and sister plus a girl from another band (The Cuties, if I remember correctly) who joined them to play drums for the tour (and a girl drummer is always good to have). They used to be in a band called John Wayne Shot Me (possibly the best band name I have heard in ages!).
http://www.myspace.com/wearetheusa
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