So I went to the Crystal Castles gig in the Andrews Lane Theatre (now rebranded “ALT”) on Tuesday night.

It wasn’t great… I’ve been loving the album, so I was really looking forward to the gig. But the live format was a bit meh, as Nialler noted — their set was a measly 25 minutes long; the sound was a mess, making it hard to make out which tune was which; quite a few of their best tunes were AWOL, such as “Untrust Us”; and there was no encore. On top of that, the support DJ was shite.

Still, the gig was cheap — 13 squids, and the support band Ugly Megan were quite cute. And — megabonus — I finally got to meet up with Nialler in person! ;)

One thing that was a little disconcerting was the age/fashion profile of the crowd. It was overwhelmingly full of hip, angular-haircutted 18 year olds — much more than any other gig I’ve been at in Dublin recently. This has thrown up some great threads at On The Record and UnaRocks… plenty of old indie rock fans gnashing their teeth about these mysterious youngsters suddenly appearing at a gig, when they haven’t been seen before “on the scene”.

There’s an easy answer as to why this happened — there aren’t many bands playing Dublin on the nu-rave end of the spectrum. The Dublin gig scene is still pretty rockist.

Some great pics of Alice over at State, btw.

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