Saturday 19/04/08 Day Two, Camden Crawl @ Various Venues, London

After waiting in a hideously long queue (the type that are synonymous with The Camden Crawl) we finally enter a rammed Bar Monsta. Launching their bid to become Wales' answer to Queens Of The Stone Age, Future Of The Left fill the tiny stage. There was as much thrashing and screeching at you'd expect from two thirds of Mclusky (plus one third of art rockers Jarcrew). But what gives them a following greater than the sum of the rock kids who normally make up gigs like this, is that have some pretty awesome tunes too. Though, obviously they are tunes coated in a thick film of choruscating feedback and grinding guitar licks. That, coupled with their intelligent lyrics - and the fact that don't hesitate in shifting their sound leftfield on myriad occasion - means that there's a reception down here as warm as toast for the trio.

Outside the venue Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh fame briefly looked like he was pop inside to check the band out, but after getting his photo taken with a fan the nice guy of TV comedy flitted up the road to the Barfly. While texting on his mobile. Dangerous behaviour on a Saturday night in Camden. That minor celeb spot over and it’s off to the Dingwalls to catch Crystal Castles.

Live, the twosome are more potent than you'd ever imagine from their eponymous debut album. That record is good, but there's not enough meat on the bone. The production makes it all sound a bit minimal and bleepy. When you see the Ontario duo going berserk on stage at Dingwalls it's very, very different. They don't mess about - there's bass (lot's of it) and screaming (lots too) and those two sonic elements lift the whole thing into a different stratosphere.

When they play ‘Air War’ it descends into a rapid-fire breakdown, with shooting noises and blasts of bassy energy resonating for the speakers. Towards the end  there's even the possibility of a stage invasion, as pilled-up kids start to try and leap up to show their love. One of the people who wasn't invading the stage - but was certainly shimmying along, we saw him  - was Peanut from Kaiser Chiefs. He was shaking it like a Polaroid picture at the back with the guitarist one whose barnet looks like the hair you find in the plughole.

Hard to categorise; but basically just very good dance music with a slice of retro-tronica to top it all off, this is a band we'd like to see more of. Yes, their songs do sound the same but who cares? I did have a nightmare about them on Sunday though. Maybe best to keep the album in the fridge.

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