Does It Offend You, Yeah? Barfly, 8 October 2007

I went to this gig expecting to be offended. After all, the band describe their sound as like "an arcade machine being thrown into a lake".
Not the most appealing description.

A lot of bands have jumped on the Electro rock bandwagon after the success of Klaxons and the Rapture but don’t have the tunes to back up the hype.

But the Barfly was packed with teenagers keen to catch DIOYY on the final night of their 23-date tour.

Their opening number had a sleazy base-line reminiscent of Justice and I expected the crowd to nod along coolly but instead the New Rave fashioned kids transformed the front of the crowd into a mosh-pit.

The band launched into Doomed Now which mashes the fervent Bloc Party-esque guitar rhythms with Daft Punk-style robotic vocals. Impressive stuff.

Cheeky grinned front man Morgan grabbed a cowbell and bounced all over the sound equipment as wild-eyed parka-wearing bassist James wildly sweated it out for the catchy Battle Royale.

Morgan invited a DIOYY T-shirt wearing fan to join the band onstage. Taking this as the signal for a stage invasion, half the crowd had joined the band by the end for their final song, doing all they could to immerse themselves in the music. One guy went for it with a drum stick on a can of Stella while another crashed two beer crates together.

Morgan made the best exit I’ve ever seen at a gig, crowd surfing all the way from the stage to the back of the room and onto the bar.

Ok, so some bands jump on bandwagons and don’t deserve the publicity. But DIOYY deserve every bit of hype they get. They’re touring again in the spring. Go see them. It would be offensive not to.