Two word summary - fucking superb. Me and Fletch were a bit skeptical at first, the venue was some back-street no-sign art studio affair that had a fucking atrocious ‘avant-garde’ band playing as we walked in, and we then proceeded to pay top whack for room temperature bottles of Budwar whilst we waited for Duracell’s set. After a few ’songs’ they finished, so as the crowd cleared we made our way to the front only to be told that he was playing in a different room altogether. Arse.

Despite that we still managed to muscle our way more or less to the front to watch this French kid - in a t-shirt that said “Laptop Hero” - do his stuff. He kicked off with tracks from ‘Space Harrier’, played the theme from ‘Ninja Warriors’, and then finished with the second-level theme from the Amiga (fuck yeah) version of ‘Turrican’, which was definitely the highlight for me.

There’s something that still gets me stoked about the music from old-school games, so to see someone show their mutual appreciation musically in the most physical way possible (i.e twatting drums) was definitely worthy. He needs to cover something by Rob Hubbard, and considering that in one interview he singles out Commando on the C64 (a game that Hubbard did the music for) as inspiration I reckon it’s definitely on the cards.

Go see this guy if you can.

Update: There’s a write-up of the Manchester gig here, along with a few photos.