THE ADVENTURES OF LOKI

THE ADVENTURES OF LOKI
BULL AND GATE
RECENTLY featured on Zane Lowe’s Fresh Meat section, where listeners vote for their favourite track from three up and coming bands, The Adventures of Loki won the vote despite being the only unsigned act.
To capitalise on the subsequent airplay of latest self released single Feminine Side, the Lancaster based three-piece performed a concise seven-song showcase at Kentish Town’s Bull and Gate on Wednesday.
Tracks on their first EP Issue #1 summon an intense rock noise, but it’s live that the thundering bass, angular guitar and girl/boy vocal attack make most sense.
With passion and energy, they tore straight into an incredibly well rehearsed set. Three songs in and guitarist Steve Wade was simultaneously whipping up squalls of angry guitar noise, screaming the vocals and raising a huge cloud of dust as he furiously stamped out the rhythm. Drummer Rachel Parsons pounded the hell out of her drum kit and bassist Brigitt Colton coolly held the whole lot together.
But it was the exhilarating hurricane of Feminine Side that blew away the audience. With its cheeky lyrical steals (“I see a little silhouetto of a man”) fantastic riffing and twin vocal shouted chorus, the song is both a visceral punch to the gut and an exhortation to jump around like crazy.
Hear it at their website www.the-adventures-of-loki.org and I’ll see you down the front at their next London gig.

Feminine Side - Streaming audio