Kid Kapichi @ Rescue Rooms, Live Review

The wonderful Kid Kapichi visited Nottingham recently to support their most recent release, and Jake Longhurst took a trip to Rescue Rooms to enjoy the chaos.

With three excellent punk bands on the bill, the Here’s What You Could Have Won tour was already looking like a top tier show, even before you factor in the live presence all three bands have. Kid Kapichi were headlining, and I already knew what to expect in terms of unrivalled stage presence. However, seeing as it was my first time seeing the support bands I wasn’t so sure what to expect.

"The band looked thrilled to be back in Nottingham, and this came through in their visceral live performance that felt genuinely explosive."

Monakis were on first, with a style that felt very heavily influenced by the band IDLES, which naturally made for an awesome live set full of very political music. They made a massive impression and started the show off absolutely perfectly. Next up was a very Kapichi-sounding band by the name of SNAYX, who were also excellent. Their singer was very crowd interaction- oriented, and ended up in the pit with us numerous times, getting everyone extremely excited and working the crowd to the palm of his hand. Both bands were almost custom built to support Kid Kapichi, so by the time the headliners were ready to come onstage the crowd were absolutely bouncing with energy.

When the band did eventually emerge onto the Rescue Rooms stage, they were greeted by raucous cheers and booming energy, to which they gave a casual wave and hello and then launched immediately into 5 Days On (2 Days Off) to a glorious eruption of noise and moshing. The band looked thrilled to be back in Nottingham, and this came through in their visceral live performance that felt genuinely explosive. Other hits such as Working Man’s Town and I.N.V.U. came early in the performance, each eliciting a similarly ecstatic reaction. They also had many repeats of the chant ‘F*ck the Tories’ throughout, which is a staple of the crowd interactions at their shows.

Later in the set, songs such as New England and Sardines sent the atmosphere of the room to the moon, with probably the loudest singalongs of the night and a visceral moshpit for both. They did calm the set down briefly with the brilliant acoustic song Party At No. 10, which had plenty of torches and lighters up, but naturally the set did get back to punk energy shortly. They finished the main set with a banger called Violence off of their first album This Time Next Year, then returned for a short encore of Smash The Gaff and Death Dips. They kept the energy at 110% for the entire evening, only letting up when they finally walked off stage, and gave us as fans a blistering show to remember. I cannot recommend all three bands enough.

Jake Longhurst

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Edited by: Jodie Averis

Cover image courtesy of NME.