Went to the 3rd Tuckshop with Henry on Thursday, to see The Sunshine Underground, Apartment, Marvin and the Gayes, and Yes Boss. 

“Two Leeds lads who are startling indie audiences everywhere with an crafty blend of sing-a-long choruses, interspersed with intelligent and witty white boy rap.”

I really wasn’t expecting to like these guys; the BBC description didn’t exactly fill me with confidence. “Intelligent and witty white boy rap” are words that don’t tend to go together that well.  Yes Boss were either going to be atrocious or awesome.  They turned out to be the latter.  Imagine a Leeds version of GLC.  But talented.  And actually funny.  Well worth seeing.  The vocalist seemed like a nice guy as well, and tried to buy some weed off Henry.

The first band were pretty good too.  Marvin and the Gayes.  When I say Marvin, you say Gaye.  Marvin.  Gaye.  Marvin.  Gaye.  Sounds crap, but it worked. Kinda like Bloc Party.  But with a bit of funk.  And a cool keyboard player.  Shame that the lovely Myspace people twats keep on deleting their profile as it contains the highly offensive word “gaye”…

The Sunshine Underground were headlining, and played pretty well.  Commercial Breakdown and I Ain’t Losing Any Sleep were the stand out tracks.  It seemed like I was the only guy in the audience who knew their music though, which was a little strange.  At the end of their set, they did a collaboration with Yes Boss, which was kinda cool.

Where the fuck were Apartment though?