JOHN FOXX & LOUIS GORDON Support From SWARF
Manchester Academy Three 12/09/03
The seldom seen sight of a pantomime frock, bright red hair and a nose ring was that which that greeted the gatherers with bouncy synth fuelled, body swerving tunes was a nice surprise to the evening. Brighton’s Swarf with their lush Bjork vocal style from Liz Green produced a captivating display of dark wave elctrofunk. The instrumentals at times, had a Saturday night at the club commercial dance feel to them, but that did not detract from the main attraction of Liz’s sparkling singing voice. The lyrics that resonated around the neat venue were rather meaningful and sharp for your standard electro track, as was demonstrated in the highlight number of a bright set ‘Vision’:
‘We stand on the edge, where the vision is clear.’