In Fiction were an average five piece rock band. They seemed to have trouble picking a genre to play in, and while April and I agreed that musical range is a good thing, changing styles four times during a song seems rather excessive.
I knew *nothing* about British India except there was a bit of hype about them, that they were supposedly pretty good. I was not prepared for how young they looked, nor for how much I liked them and how utterly enjoyable they were. They had lots of energy, played well together, and had a gloriously chaotic rock/punk sound. The lead guitarist was a tiny tiny axe wielding maniac, and the drummer looked like he was going to die of exhaustion by the second last song but managed to keep going. The lead singer, who looked like your average teenaged indie geek, didn't know what to do with his hands when he wasn't playing the guitar, and settled for trying to dance with his arms waving around loosely and uselessly. But they were definitely a new band to keep an eye out on.
The room started filling up properly for Kisschasy. Their set started with the lead singer doing a simple acoustic version of 'Black Dress' which was very well received by the crowd, and then the rest of the band came out. Their sound was more rock live than I'd expected from their almost pop singles from radio, and I found them very generic in sound; I kept waiting for the song to really interesting...by which time it was over and they went straight into another one that sounded about the same. After four songs I was ready to leave.
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