Ever since Bingo Hand Job arrived on the Borderline stage in 1991 and turned out to be REM, and a band called Venison advertised a 2010 Dingwalls gig with a logo font suspiciously similar to that of The Strokes, industry ears have pricked up at any mention of a totally unknown band charging full whack for a club show a step or two out of their league.
Whispers abounded, then, about the debut gig by a group called Crushed Kid at Hackney’s 300-capacity Moth Club. Googling them is inadvisable – trust me – but results for the band turns up one online track preview and some blurred Instagram photos of five sultry, yet naggingly familiar, figures.
