Despite missing soundcheck and arriving at 93 Feet East a mere 2 minutes before going on stage we really enjoyed our London gig last week. Checking out the reviews it looks like we weren’t the only ones…
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/leisure/4744509.GIG_REVIEW__Dark_Sparks_____/
GIG REVIEW: Dark Sparks ****
SHEFFIELD indie band Dark Sparks have a presence.
With their grungy clothes and moody demeanour the boys looked like they’re going to Kurt Cobain’s funeral as they walked on stage at East London’s 93 Feet East in Brick Lane.
But opening with their darkly brilliant track We Are Flies, any fears I had that the Sparks would be glum, out of tune EMOs wailing incomprehensibly to a scratching guitar were happily dispelled.
Their fresh, but ever so slightly moody, set was crammed full of razor sharp guitars and retro keyboards.
Flamboyant lead singer Leigh Greenwood is reminescent of a young Jarvis Cocker and his vocals convey all the pathos and melancholy of disaffected youth.
The band has the energy, confidence and cool charisma of a group who are destined for more than just playing gigs in half-empty, dingy, dark basements, stinking of stale beer and vomit.
Dark Sparks are made for better things and if it wasn’t for the poor sound system distorting the band’s wickedly electrifying sound, the gig would have been a spine tingling musical experience.
Catch Dark Sparks at their next London gig when they play at The Fly on Saturday.
Dark Sparks. Bang! Bang! Eche! The Fly, New Oxford Street. Saturday. 7.30pm. £5 in advance. £6 on the door. 020 7688 8994 or visit barflyclub.com
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