Friday, August 21, 2009 metrolife 27 London Lowdown Comedy Review David Gig Miike Snow Mills: House Party! Mysterious pseudonyms are a standard The narrative constructs adopted accessory for dance music artists, and by cabaret performers with which Scando-American pop trio Miike to present their work can Snow take their unconventional name sometimes make for an spelling from cult Japanese film intoxicating experience: a director . melancholy raconteur can provide They take their sound, on the other a hugely affecting show; a spoof hand, from Europop, electronica and music hall star an incredibly funny r’n’b references, and they’ve already one. The conceit behind David proved their hit-making abilities, Mills’s piece, that we’re all at a comprising multi-instrumental singer/ high-octane house party and he’s songwriter and release in October; it’s a highly the acid-tongued gatecrasher, producers Pontus Winnberg and stylised yet sweetly catchy and soulful isn’t particularly successful. Christian Karlsson (who worked on set of tunes. And while tracks There’d be a livelier sense of ’s Toxic, as well as including A Horse Is Not A Home and ‘togetherness’ if he could riff off tunes for the likes of Kylie and Ms Black And Blue have scored virtual his audience better, but he’s not a Dynamite, under another wacky name, success, they really deserve to stand good enough improviser for that. Bloodshy & Avant). out in the flesh. Wyatt’s emotive And the droll wisecracking that What Miike Snow have yet to delivery certainly helps, as does the kicks this show off is neither establish is their own recognisable fact that Miike Snow are actually a funny nor sharp: for a while, he’s sense of personality, despite having pretty chiselled-looking bunch. the boorish partygoer you don’t been together for two years – but now Think of their headline gig as a want to get stuck with. 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