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The Boogaloo, Highgate
Tuesday October 17

If there’s one indie label success story of the century so far, it’s Domino Records. Let’s have a little run down of their roster, shall we? Franz Ferdinand. Arctic Monkeys. The Kills. The Blueskins.

The Whoskins? Well, that’s why Tuesday night at the Boogaloo is as busy as a Ferrari forecourt on free test drive day.

You’ve heard The Blueskins. Like a modern curse, it’s due to the all-pervasive intrusion of advertising. While Bill Hicks spins in his grave, take a moment to recall the ad for the companion shower gel to that deodorant that professes to render all passing women slave to your sexual magnetism. The one with the guy barrelling right out of the shower and hitting the town wearing just a towel? The raucous balls’d out bluesy stomper that accompanies that is “Change My Mind”, courtesy of The Blueskins.

Opening like an older (but not weathered) version of their Arctic Monkeys label-mates, if they suddenly discovered funk, it’s easy to see how they fit that Domino template – instant, engaging, and laden with enough hooks to catch Moby Dick.

Sometimes they comes across like a dreamier White Stripes, with Ryan Spendlove adding some harmonica finish to the razor-tipped riffs. Filter that through shades of Beck and you’ve got rockabilly indie that’s infectious enough that even a corpse would catch it.

“Change My Mind” was re-released on Monday 16th October.