Most certainly not the National Front.

Neils Children and Disconcerts @ The Queen of Hoxton 04/05/09


The whole of the moustache club were out in Shoreditch last night to see these two fresh new bands on the scene at a free, yes you heard me right, free gig in the lovely brand spanking new Queen of Hoxton which is just fabulous don't you know. Unusual crowd considering the band were very much british punk which for me was unexpected. I, clad in my tartan dress was very fitting with the politically fuelled tales of backstreet Britain. How very working class.

The Disconcerts were up first and although raising a relatively small crowd they provided a quick travel back in time to the 1970's for their short 30minute set. The lead singer's voice was not unlike Johnny Rotten's, the difference between these young lads and Pistols being that the disconcerts could play their instruments. Very well in fact. The only way to appreciate this music was to po go like it was 1979 and is just what the crowd did.

Towards the end of the set the Queen started to fill up and after the whole place cleared for that all so very important cigarette for the Shoreditch crew, they were back for Neil's Children.



(Before their makeover!)

I've seen this band before but i am pretty sure the lead singer did not look like the little boy from This is England last time??! Clad in docs, drainpipes, shirt and braces the lead singer/guitarist could easily have been an extra in the film. The bassist looked very drawn and Ian Curtis like with his polo shirt done up to the top and the drummer had black and blonde hair sticking out all over the place in a gothic esque way. This band looked like they shouldn't work but they really, really did.

After some heckling from the crowd...is it ok to shout peodophile at a band member nowadays?? I didn't know that was normal protocol! The band got underway. The lead singers cock-e-ney english tones with the fast paced guitar riffs worked so well. It was the sort of set you couldn't not dance to. After a whopping hour and a half without a break(!) i take my hat off to those lads...the room was awash with sweaty looking club kids (mostly with moustaches, when will this trend end?)

What an exellently free night in a lovely venue with some not so lovely people...i'm talking to you creepy guy stood in front of me.

Definitely support these lovely lads.