InMe - Live at London Borderline (Live Review: Dan)

This was my second experience of InMe live, last time I saw them they were supporting Pendulum as part of the iTunes Festival last summer. That was, for a long time, the best gig I'd ever been to.

I'll talk about the support act as breifly as possible. We Are The Damned are a portugese screamo band and they are fronted by a woman. That's enough reason for me to hate them. The noises she was making truly were the most horrible things I have ever heard. It was half an hour where I wish ear blinking was possible. The actual music wasn't too bad though. It wasn't good...But it was enough to try and distract my attention from the horrible woman screaming at me.

Anyway, not too long later, InMe came onto stage after we listened to a very dramatic, orchestral piece of music. It was good, I actually quite enjoyed it. Then they kicked into 7 Weeks from the album White Butterfly - one of the only songs i really really liked on the album. The crowd was full of energy and everyone on the floor was having a great time already.

InMe played a fairly decent mix from all of their back-catalogue and they also previewed a nice amount from their new album Herald Moth.

The London Borderline was a really nice building. It didn't really work as a music venue though. For starters, it was undoubtedly the hottest room I've ever been in before. Asif the moshing wasn't enough to get me sweating, the room alone made it so much worse. Also, I remember feeling really low down in there. I think the stage may have been quite raised, which is unusual for a small venue.

The new material they played I quite liked. Especially a song called 'Single of the Week'.

"What's that shit on the radio? It sounds like they made it so they could make it"

The song itself sounded very 'poppy' and commercial and I think this was very clever and ironic. I was impressed. I also dislike it when bands play new songs live because I don't know them. But this was good, and everyone seemed to enjoy it.

Overall their performance was absolutely perfect, the guitarwork from Dave and their new member (I would like to say he is called Simon, but I could be lying) was perfect and the vocals were also spot on. Only thing that bugged me (and Elliott) was that every single song was dedicated to someone. For instance:

"This song is dedicated to our merchandise manager"
"This song is dedicated to my friend"
"This song is dedicated to my sister's boyfriend's uncle's mother"
That sort of thing. Every song.

But anyway, I had a fantastic night and can't wait for the new album. I can also strike one more London venue off of my list. And I was contemplating not going...

5/5