Minor Victories live review
“It’s nice that so many of you showed up before the album’s even out,” announces Minor Victories’ Rachel Goswell after tonight’s opening song. Of course, being that the band consists of members of Mogwai (Stuart Braithwaite and Martin Bulloch), Editors (Justin Lockey) and Slowdive (Goswell herself), a ready-made fan base rather precedes them. That they sound exactly as you’d expect if you combined all the parent bands helps too: shimmering post-rock atmospherics, glacial vocals and chiming motorik guitar lines abound at extreme volume, with the night’s only surprise being Braithwaite’s uncharacteristically blues-rock solo during ‘Cogs’.
On one level it’s predictable fare - the gig ends in a rush of feedback and white noise that even hitherto undiscovered Peruvian tribes saw coming - but when the din is this engaging, it seems churlish to complain.
