Chapel Club
The Cockpit, Leeds
Monday 7th February
Cockpit 2 has never seen so many people. It’s barely possible to even get in the doors as Chapel Club start playing. But wait… No… That can’t be right… Bald heads? Beer bellies? This crowd is full of old people. Shouldn’t they all be at work, or paying off a mortgage or something? This is a minor travesty. Maybe all the twenty something’s are in bands already or at home taking drugs, that’s cooler than going to gigs right? Either way, the majority of the revellers had seen more than a few millennia
Things were less shocking down the front however, where there were some under 40’s and the five rake like band members dominated most of the field of vision. Things kicked off supremely with material from the new album ‘Palace’ travelling from the stage welcomingly into peoples’ ear passages. Chapel Club are an inventive band and deserved to be listened to. Integrity is a hard thing to place, but these five enviably well-dressed Londoners go along way towards it.
Songs like ‘Surfacing’ and ‘All The Eastern Girls’ are dealt with immaculately. But this isn’t just a routine; there is passion in this performance that makes the gig so much more enjoyable.
The band creep off stage to raucous hand banging but return to finish the set with an impromptu encore, consisting of sexy ‘Five Trees’. Everyone loves this, especially the guy stumbling into people in a woeful attempt to make dancing happen. Not at this Chapel Club gig, feet tapping will more than suffice.
Go buy the album ‘Palace’ it is most definitely worth the investment. And next time a band of Chapel Club’s calibre play in Leeds, get off stupid Fifa, buy tickets to the gig and stop all these old people from turning up, it’s just not right.
4/5
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