Django Django, Stereo, Glasgow

Having been postponed by illness, this show becomes the final date of Django Django’s first sold out UK tour. They are among friends here in Glasgow, not only musically – The Phantom Band’s freaky noise side project Omnivore Demon provide support - but the formerly Edinburgh-based band have plenty of supporters in the audience.

Taking the stage in co-ordinated home-bleached T-shirts, a small yet effective DIY touch that presents a united front, the band immediately draw us into their world. The chirps, wails and tribal rhythms of Introduction make sense when you know that this is a band lead from the back of the stage. Drummer and producer David Maclean is the bandleader, a fact made all the more apparent by the prevalence of percussion in the Django’s sound.

He is also the younger brother of the Beta Band’s John and inevitably there is a lot of common ground between the two outfits. Hail Bop’s beat-driven momentum and blank harmonies catch a room full of people who have had just enough time to take the band’s self titled debut album to their hearts.

‘Firewater’, with its heavy glam stomp, shows how inventive musical scavenging can pay off when done with flair and skill. Waveforms becomes the musical imagining of the electronic desert of the album’s artwork and there is a feeling that the band’s efforts to perfect a fully realised package are paying off.

‘Skies Over Cairo’ is just the right side of cheesy (like Daft Punk doing the ‘Sand Dance’) The clip clop beat of ‘Love’s Dart’ continues to buoy up the UK coconut trade (singer Vincent Neff tell us they keep getting stolen, this is the third set of the tour – you’ve not lived until you’ve walked the streets of Nottingham looking for coconuts apparently).

The set speeds by. ‘Life’s A Beach’ takes surf guitar and adds a twist. The eerie rumble of ‘WOR’ demonstrates more percussion than a primary school music class.

Here is a band who have polished their skills, honed their material and found their musical identity amid a plethora of influences. They hover close to the edge of gimmickry without ever quite falling over into novelty. Returning for one last song, album closer ‘Silver Rays’, all the disco geek action manages to steams up synth player Tommy Grace’s glasses.

Django Django lead you into a weird world where a blend of styles that shouldn’t work suddenly makes sense. This visit was all to short, but hopefully it won’t be too long before we can take the trip again.