I always find it awkward reviewing a gig where it’s just one bloke with a
laptop.  I saw enough laptop bands at In The City this year to almost put
me off any for a while.  Thankfully Gold Panda succeeds where others
disappoint (see for example D/R/U/G/S). Yes, there’s still not much to
look at – one bloke with a hoodie hunched over a laptop is pretty much the
same as any other bloke in a hoodie hunched over a laptop and there’s no
visuals or anything else to keep you distracted.  But this was a cracking
set with a musician not afraid to interrupt the churning flow of beats by
spewing out ambient loops, or gloriously crushing everything down into
disorienting white noise just to keep people on their toes.  And he was
LOUD.  Loud in a “this is shaking all my internal organs together into one
huge floppy mess”way. Loud in a very good way in other words.  The bass
sound was huge.

Surprisingly for an electronica gig, it wasn’t just a bunch of sad
beard-scratching blokes there either.  There were girls there.  Yeah, real
girls!  With boobies and everything!  Granted, some of them had beards
they could scratch too. But anyway, GIRLS!  WITH BOOBIES!

I drew a picture of the gig as I couldn’t take a decent photo. 
‘Whispering’ Bob Harris wasn’t there as my picture suggests.  But if he
had been he would’ve been scratching his beard too, and you wouldn’t have
been able to hear his whispering anyway. Speak up Bob!

Have a listen to Gold Pand’a album “Lucky Shiner” here