The Spinto Band

Remember that day when you woke up thinking it was a school day but it was Saturday and the start of a three week holiday and your mum said Get up we're off to the beach cottage and handed you a fishing rod, a puppy, a week's supply of ice cream and your best friend to take along? Well this gig was more fun. This might be the funnest gig I've ever been to. Jump-up-and-down, forget you're about to turn 30, make a complete ass of yourself, fun. I've never had happy gas but I bet it feels like this.

The vital statistics: five smart, funny teenage boys (song titles include Direct To Helmet and Crack The Whip) and twelve great pop tunes (catchy refrains like 'Oh Mandy! Oh Man-dee-ee-ee!). Oh how I would have swooned, say, 15 years ago. Tonight's gig opened with the exhilarating So Kind, Stacey and maintained dangerous energy levels right the way through. The real treat though was the encore - a glorious cover of I Think We're Alone Now followed by one of the best things I've ever seen on stage - a row of teenage boys and some tall guy in an English hunting jacket and goggles doing Everybody Walk The Dinosaur (with actions). Yeah!

Venue: Barfly
Band website: Spinto Band
Myspace: Spinto Band
Pitchfork review: Nice and Nicely Done