Superjupiter @ Too 2 Much

Last Thursday was a week off djing (hurrah!) so off we went to the launch party for new electropop compilation Robopop. It was held at Too 2 Much which had inexplicably been renamed the 'Soho Revue Bar' and like our lunch at Ronnie Scott's it was cool to see a venue we'd heard so much about. It's also in one of my favourite bits of Soho where the street goes really narrow and the hookers go hardcore (i'm not sure what that says about me.)

Anyway, the CD contains lots of cool artists like Goldfrapp, Dragonette (yay!), Performance, Temposhark and Soho Dolls. I need to listen to it more to check out the bands I don't know, but it seems pretty ace. Performing live at their launch party were Formatic, Super Jupiter and Matinee Club. Issues at the door meant we only got in just in time to see the end fo Formatic, a London brother/sister duo, but they sounded much squeakier in real life than on myspace.

Super Jupiter are a three piece from Norway and are mates of the astoundingly dreadful Lorraine. In fact two of Lorraine were in the audience and my mind wandered quite a lot trying to figure out a way of destroying them. Anyway we received Super Jupiter's single You Know through a DJ promo list ages and ages ago and really liked it. Again there's an easy Scissor Sisters reference here, but I need to remember that high pitched and camp doesn't always equal SS, but well mainly it does and it's 4am, I can't be bothered to be any more in depth here - you can hear it on their myspace. We had planned to see them before at a showcase at Camden's Barfly but managed to show up as they were packing up. So now was the time to see how they transferred a really produced synthy sounding record to a live performance - and, well, they pulled it off. You can watch their mildly amusing skating video, which Laurie you'll probably love, at youtube.

Then came Matinee Club, which is the unnecessary new name for The Modern. Ditched from their label after a chart rig fiasco and minus one or two members, the band were as tight and as good as ever. But - I was pretty bored. We first caught them live supporting Kaiser Chiefs [argh CDUK is now offline and I've lost all my screengrabs. Argh]  at Ibiza Rocks in 2005 and they sounded right up my street. Female, vaguely Stefani-esque vocal, with a big fat chunk of 80s glampop. But now, well to me it just sounds a bit tired and boring, and honestly I think they looked a bit dishearted. That said if you'd slogged your guts out, finally got signed to a major, and then got sent back to slogging your guts out hell, you'd probably be a bit pissed off too.