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GIG PREVIEW: Heartbreak + Little Boots
November 28 @ The Cockpit, Leeds
Originally slated to play a late night show at the Cockpit, dance act Heartbreak have now hooked up with hotly-tipped synthpop lass Little Boots for a short co-headlining gig which sees them hitting the stage at the same venue on a new date and at a more social hour.
The Anglo-Argentinian duo are set to have anyone over the age of 30 asking themselves whether the band are having a laugh while leaving any youngsters who didn't live through the era of po-faced synth players and men who think that growing a moustache and rolling up the sleeves on their suit jacket turns them into a totty magnet thinking that these guys are quite possibly the best thing since Fischerspooner.
With a straight-faced commitment to slightly suspect 80s Euro-disco, posturing frontman Sebastian Muravchik and key stroker Ali Renault look like the synthpop Daryl Hall and John Oates and sound like Giorgio Moroder stuck to the Human League with some weird kind of hairy testosterone glue.
Destined to be either laughed at or loved, their debut album Lies is full of slightly potty but fearsomely danceable tunes featuring lyrics about "cybernetic poison in my heart" and "Molly Ringwald painting the Rainbow".
Providing a nice fragrant yin to Heartbeat's musky yang is Little Boots, aka Blackpool-born Victoria Hesketh. She'll be a familiar face to eagle eyed local music fans as she was formerly one part of Leeds synthpop trio Dead Disco who, despite winning a contract with the respected 679 label, never quite took off.
Now flying solo, the self-confessed synth-obsessive caught the ear of Hot Chip's Joe Goddard, who took on production duties of her first single, the pleasantly infectious Meddle.
Like a synthpop Girls Aloud distilled down into one feisty Annie-sized package, Little Boots is destined for success. Catch her at an intimate venue while you've got the chance.
Tickets for the show are 7 and are available from Crash and Jumbo Records and from.lunatickets.co.uk.
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