From a few feet back, the mosh pit seems lively enough – but apparently not from the stage of the tiny Windmill. “Get the fuck up here and prove yourself, goddamit,” insists Soul Glo frontman Pierce Jordan. The Philadelphia hardcore quartet, making their UK debut in the wake of their stellar debut Diaspora Problems, evidently want to make a mark. And that they do – certainly in heat. Within two songs, the air is heavy with moisture, and drummer TJ Stevenson has stripped to the waist. “Do you think I’m sweating?” he asks the crowd.
“Those are tears,” counters Jordan. “We’re crying from every pore of our bodies.”
