Abe Vigoda, Cargo, London

Cargo as a venue is great, boasting a lovely outdoor section and good sound for the bands (shame about the beer prices). It’s also usually very busy, though it’s not this evening. On a quiet, cold and blustery East London night you’d want to be somewhere warm, but the wind blows strong between the fifty or so people who’ve come to see Abe Vigoda headline under the arches of the Overground train line.

Maybe it’s because the band are playing with Male Bonding and No Age the night after just down the road, or maybe it’s because the hype has died down a little since the excitement of their debut album ‘Skeleton’. It’s probably a bit of both.

Live, they haven’t lost anything from their sound, unlike on the album with its layered tones and new found love of the synthesizer; the formula is still signature Abe Vigoda. The guys are engrossed, to the extent they down right refuse playing anything from ‘Skeleton’, with guitarist Jaun Velazquez explaining ‘Sorry guys that’s not what we’re about anymore…’ when the crowd bombard them with requests from their previous work. What a shame.

Sailing through their set, which consists of ‘Throwing Shade’, ‘Beverly Slope’, ‘Sequins’, ‘November’ and ‘Dream of My Love (Chasing After You)’, it feels very short, with the bemused crowd urging the band to continue and heckling ‘YOU HAVE MORE TIME!’. After a few glances and gestures between the group, they launch into an unplanned encore. But still nothing from ‘Skeleton’ - only new album title track, ‘Crush’.