have got you, with ‘Hey’, ‘Tame’, ‘Monkey Gone To Heaven’ and ‘Vamos’ (which goes down particularly well with the Spanish crowd) all getting an airing during their peerless Mad Cool main stage set. You want more? Don’t worry: Black Francis and co. ‘Wave Of Mutilation’? Of course! ‘Caribou’? Naturally. Things you do expect to see at your average Pixies gig: hit after hit after hit. Things you don’t expect to see at your average Pixies gig: a man in a full green bodysuit, quite possibly in tribute to Charlie Kelly’s ‘Green Man’ alter ego in It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, darting through the crowd and throwing shapes. Introducing the sing-along banger ‘In The Wake Of Your Leave’, he berates those feeling “too cool to dance”, adding “now is not the time to be too apathetic to fucking move – if you think that’s cringe, you can fuck off”. For a man so solidly built, Le’aupepe’s lounge lizard dance moves can only be described as fluid. From the euphoric arena indie of opener ‘Angel Of 8th Ave’ to the chest-thumping ‘The Heart Is A Muscle’ and ‘Let Me Down Easy’, the band’s spirit is infectious. His brutal Aussie self-deprecation lies at the heart of GoY’s DNA (“Thank you for missing an infinitely better band to come watch us,” he later says to those of us who are missing Pixies to be here), but that’s not to say that he’s on a downer. “Who’s never even fucking heard of us before? I promise we’ll massively fucking disappoint you.” “Who’s never seen us before?” asks Gang Of Youths’ Dave Le’aupepe to an impressive early evening crowd at Mad Cool’s Region Of Madrid stage.
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