Wild Beasts enter the stage to Roy Orbison's "You Got It", what a great intro song! They've been around for a decade, "borne from Kendal, built in Leeds, living in London, releasing on Domino Records". Singer Hayden Thorpe's voice reminds us of Antony Hegarty of Antony & the Johnsons. They put on a great set including songs from their current album "Smother" and a section of "old songs", to the audience's delight. Major social network activity prior to the live stream resulted in listeners from fifty countries with Sweden, UK, USA and Germany topping the list.

"This is post-break-up sex, a ritual tainted by regret both past and present, not a wanton generalisation to be boasted about in bawdy terms that would have made our old friend Waugh's skin crawl. ‘Smother' as a whole is deserving of his, and everyone's, unabashed and unironic praise. Wild Beasts have abandoned observations of English prurience in favour of delving deep into their own internal landscapes, and without becoming navel-gazing bores - they lash themselves with their ever-sharp tongues as much as ‘Two Dancers'' bovver-booted brutes (case in point: ‘Reach A Bit Further''s refrain of "I was crude, I was lewd, I was rude, I was not in the mood"). " Laura Snapes, NME

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