The Internet + Kilo Kish
Night & Day Café, Manchester | Saturday 9th
When Kilo Kish arrives on stage, rocking a leather jacket and big hair, she’s got the full attention of everyone present at Manchester’s Night & Day Cafe. Support acts aren’t always this fortunate, but the fact that everyone’s chanting her name before she’s onstage isn’t down to luck. And tonight Kilo Kish isn’t the support, she’s act number one.
She opens with her Internet-produced hit Navy and busts out peppy dance moves right through her set. “Say something, just anything” Kish says at one point, holding the mic out to crowd. “I’d fuck you!” screams a heckler. It’s true of a lot of the crowd tonight – a good half are OF fanboys. But Kish doesn’t lose her cool, and anyone who’s here because she’s cute has missed that quality that Kilo and Syd share with no one else, their ability to take the bravado out of rap without killing it. They smile and enunciate at a laid back pace – and it works.
The jaded, loose and off-key quality that The Internet have on record has no place in their live show. This might be the result of the more stripped down set-up they have tonight, a tight unit of musicians who roll through a set of sensual space funk with ease. During a set that’s appreciated regardless of hype and without gimmicks, The Internet pull out a song from their next album on a whim. Syd reassures us it’ll still sound like The Internet, because “you might not realise, but we’re fans of other artists too and we know how that feels”, which is true. And as they grow up in public, it’s this sense of direction and affinity with their fans which makes the Manchester crowd grow exponentially with every visit.
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Words: Alastair Hardaker
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