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This was my first time seeing Dum Dum Girls and they didn’t disappoint. Playing an almost hour long set almost evenly split between songs from I Will Be and Only in Dreams with a few from the “He Gets Me High” EP thrown in (including their amazing cover of The Smiths‘ “There is a Light that Never Goes Out”) for good measure, their set was short but sweet. Once they came back out for the encore (the almost seven-minute long “Coming Down”, by far their longest track). Not the chatty type, singer Dee Dee barely said a word to the audience the entire time.
Crocodiles, the band of Dee Dee’s husband Brandon Welchez, played punishingly loud noise rock that alluded to early Jesus and Mary Chain while Welchez’s wiry, almost robotic on-stage movements reminded me of figures ranging from Ian Curtis to Colin Newman of Wire to (much more recently) Paul Smith of Maximo Park. Notably, Dee Dee came out to duet with Brandon on Crocodiles’ “I Wanna Kill” and left the stage right after that without saying a word.
I missed Royal Baths, the first band, so I can’t comment on their set.
