The Rapture @ The Liquid Room

One two three four, kick that fucker out the door, shout The Rapture, with their followers singing along. It would be nice if a few 'fuckers' were to be kicked out - it would leave more space for the rest of us. The Liquid Room is rammed tonight, and these boys from New York are racing through a frenetic set. House of Jealous Lovers achieves the welcome its notoriety calls for and plastic pints are flung in the air as arms and hands are used for more frantic dancing. This indeed is The Rapture's reason to be: 'Pieces of the People We Love' is a collection designed to get people off their designer-clad bums and have a good old shindig. Fusing together pieces of the people they love from all genres and times, The Rapture are well on with their campaign. While some influences don't quite marry together terribly harmoniously, there is sufficient invention in their work and oomph in its delivery to justify their rabid following. [Dolph Norris]