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Slightly disappointed to find the advertised support Tess Parks was nowhere to be seen (and in the US if her twitter is to be believed...). Not sure what the promoter was doing there.
But in place we got the intriguing and (somewhat) beguiling Entrance - a skinny, earnest kid singing loudly from the heart whilst dextrously playing an upside down strung guitar to a range of slightly overlong but definitely above average folk tunes. His final song, accompanied only by flapping arms and a bell bracelet was quite something... Sadly his ridiculous name means he'll be invisible on google and youtube. So its probably the last I'll catch of the guy. But maybe thats what he wants. The show being as much about laying it on the line personally show by show than looking to the long term.
Psychic Ills then wandered onto the stage and ploughed through a good hour of there stuff, uttering barely a word of acknowledgement to the crowd as they ground through their various homages to the Spacemen 3, Spiritualised, Loop, Mazzy Star, Screamadelica-era Primals and the general brilliance of much volume, three chords and a load of feedback in a small scale venue.
The crowd was surprisingly young and clean cut for a band that so obviously draws on the sounds of bands who 30 years ago would have drawn a scuzzier, grimier, longer haired crowd to the same sort of North London venue. But the traditional dance to this sort of thing, a sort of sway with accompanied head nodding, seems to have been rediscovered by a new generation of psych-drone fans.
Psychic Ills aren't particularly engaging as a spectacle or band. They don't bring charisma to the stage. Or originality. Or drive. Or anything much, really. But as an effective homage/tribute to a feedback-soaked era that peaked maybe 30 years ago, they cant currently be bettered.
Mattxxxxx
