Les Savy Fav

Les Savy Fav are the craziest live spectacle ever. If there’s a pole or a tree or a building even, Tim Harrington (LSF’s singer) will try to climb it. I even saw them on a boat, and it was all we could do from keeping him climbing overboard.

Often half-clothed in some outrageous costume, with a microphone shoved in his mouth or down his pants, it would be too easy for LSF’s music to take a back seat to Tim’s antics. If only the music wasn’t so great. It commands as much attention as Mr Harrington.

Tim’s half-sung, half-screamed vocals on top of edgy, duelling guitars brings out the best in this art noise rock outfit. On tracks such as “Excess Energies” and “The Sweat Descends”, Tim sounds like a maniac in front of a band possessed, and it doesn’t take long for this grip to take hold of the audience.

Having formed out of design school in '95, these guys were the forerunners to post-hardcore bands like Mclusky and Fucked up. Indeed the Fucked Up frontman, Mr Damian, strikes a remarkable resemblance to Tim’s paunchy bear-like appearance. It’s just so wacky, you’ve got to experience it to believe it.