It's half past eight on a Saturday night in Brighton, and a packed-out room of makeup-clad, histrionic alt kids are singing their hearts out to hallmark Rocky Horror Picture Show hit Time Warp. Not unusual scenes, all things considered, but this isn't Cabaret Carousel at the Charles Street Tap: it's a rock gig starring one of the most exciting British bands of their generation, and the pre-show playlist is throwing out bangers.
It's clear this is a crowd in the mood to party, and as soon as Creeper stride out on stage - bathed in blood-red light, clad in matching biker jackets, slick hair and facepaint and slamming into fangtastic, Lost Boys-core banger Cry To Heaven - it's clear they're in the mood, too. Following the success of last year's magnificent Sanguivore album and the successful Academy-sized tour that followed, tonight marks the latest stop-off in a bolt-on run around some more intimate haunts, though with around 800 lost souls squeezing into Chalk this evening, it's hardly a grotty, toilet venue punk gig.
