Friday 11/07/08 Justice @ Somerset House, London

Thumping baseline, storm clouds gathering, a crowd fizzing with excitement, two French DJs ready to blow the night into next week, it must be Daft Punk ready to hit the stage. Right? Wrong. Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay have been eagerly watching their influencers, waiting for the right moment to take over the mantle, and tonight might just be it.

Justice saunter on stage as if they know this is their night. Although every night is their night when the ambience is as thick and the sounds as electrifying as evident in the atmospheric courtyard of Somerset House. Not even the torrential rain for opening act Late of the Pier worries them. It is as if they control Mother Nature as well.

Only breakthrough record and the night’s sing-along moment ‘We Are Your Friends’ and the all too short encore, actually produce any raindrops. Even then they feel as much a part of the show as the six-foot neon cross below the two duelling DJs on stage. Blasting through an extended version of 'Genesis', with the electric cross flickering, before teasing the audience with opening bars from last year’s dance floor filler, the aptly named D.A.N.C.E, kicks the crowd from their Late of the Pier brolley disco, into bouncing Duracell bunnies. And the fun does not end there. A raucous hour and 20 minute set ends far too quickly, but they do have time to storm through ‘TTHHEE PPAARRTTYY’, hands in the air ‘NY excuse’ and euphoric ‘DVNO’.

Justice came, saw, and conquered Somerset House’s summer series. Beat that Duffy. The buzzing but wet audience trudges home, having just witnessed the closest feeling to seeing the original Daft Punkers themselves. We are their friends.