Outside, the London weather last night may have taken a turn for the miserable, but inside Kentish Town’s O2 Forum the temperature could have given this week’s Spanish fiesta Primavera Sound a run for its money. Perhaps it was merely a broken air conditioner turning the heat up to 11, but we suspect it was more likely the sheer force of teenage pheromones out to greet the inaugural London outing of Djo: the musical guise of Stranger Things’ actor Joe Keery.
Long sold out and simmering with barely-controlled excitement, in some ways the feverous buzz in the venue made complete sense. Having made his birth name on one of the most popular shows of the past decade, his pen name was then thrust into the limelight by its own burst of TikTok virality when 2022 track End of Beginning - a wistful synth number about returning home to Chicago - was picked up and catapulted into the billion-streaming club last year. Essentially, Keery has been anointed by the internet twice over.
