Four Tet, ATP Nightmare Before Christmas

Due to unforeseen circumstances, which roughly translates in all truthfulness as “we got the times wrong”, we at DIY didn’t manage to get any photos of Kieran Hebden, the electronic artist known on the spine of his records as Four Tet. But I wouldn’t worry too much, because if you’re looking for some gossip, the most exciting thing that Four Tet physically did during his set at ATP was wear a rather bright - but otherwise completely plain and non-discreet - yellow t-shirt. That’s definitely something to tweet home about, isn’t it?

But it’s for the best that he didn’t feel the need for a MF Doom-style or SBTRKT-esque mask. It’s also good that he didn’t come out wearing a wooly panda hat like glitch bro-in-arms Gold Panda used to. We can equally be thankful that Hebden kept his backdrop minimum and decided not to emulate Justice and drag a giant illuminated cross on stage.

Instead Four Tet just stuck to what he does best, and that’s just play his killer hits, which meant that rather than standing cross-armed and monitoring the producer’s every move, the audience on Sunday night at ATP throw caution to how dreadfully they are going to inevitably feel in the morning and enjoy themselves, completely consumed on the dancefloor.

Such is the strength of 2010’s ‘There Is Love In You’, with Hebden reeling out the likes of ‘Love Cry’, ‘Angel Echoes’ and ‘Sing’, that he whips up the type of frenzy that’s only ever seen at 10pm on a Sunday in pubs when it’s a Bank Holiday. Who needs to make any effort at all when you have tunes this good? Not Four Tet evidently, that’s for damn sure.