As the stage-front curtain rose on the second of Hot Chip’s four-night stand at Brixton Academy last night, the clues were all there that the crowd was set to have its patience pleasantly tested.
To the sound of gently rising tones, 5,000 fans watched smoke evaporating on a stage resembling a Yamaha keyboard warehouse for three minutes before the London electro-poppers finally appeared, clad mostly in white and with singer Alexis Taylor swamped by a futuristic festival waterproof as if just plucked from the barrier of a drizzly Wireless to front the band.
