KING ADORA:THE FLAPPER&FIRKIN

King Adora are the first real band of the 21 century and in the absence of any other remotely interesting new British band,you can see why everyone's so excited about them.They rock man,cheesy riffs,snarly vocals and simple shout along choruses that require no IQ,no thought,no brain activity whatsoever.

They ve benefited tremendously from their first brace of gigs around the country ,tight ,professional and for anyone who remembers the slightly nerdish,smelly boy in the lumberjacket,MATT has incredibly metamorphosed into a bona fide pop star,all big lips ,make up and sneery,dirty eyes.He s like a teenager who has discovered sex for the first time and can t keep his hands off his dick for ten seconds but its not sex that Matt s discovered but the power of a record deal ,massive hype and a fawning music press.

Its the first time in years I ve heard a local band cheered onto the stage and KA open with the siren screaming silliness of "THE LAW" with its dumbfuck lyrics and sigue sigue sputnik campness.The rest of the set is equally aggressive in your face marketing ,like BOO .COM spending £ 600 000 per week on advertising with no worthwhile products to sell,BIONIC is the only tune worth mentioning,simply because it has a slight one squirming to get out amongst the testosterone frenzy of the rest of the set.

They finish with "asthmatic",another insipid rocker and leave the stage like all conquering heroes ,which they are,and as a local band with the press in their pockets and the chance of world domination,I m gonna get behind them and wish them luck,I  don't think they have any songs to back up the hyperbole and with Mercury Records pushing them to run before they ve crawled,I doubt they 'll ever be given time to write the songs that will take them on from here,but that's the business as it stands today,

Steve Lamacq is GOD and all bands get a couple of releases,a few tours and then unless they have the talent,foresight and management capable of guiding them onward,they re burnt out and on the scrap heap of false hopes and fake idols within a year. 

Buy into KING ADORA like you d buy shares in a dot com start-up,in and out as fast as you can,make some money,get some kicks ,try not to get your fingers burnt,that s what the rest of the business is doing,pimps and their whores,its an old story but getting sadder to watch every year......