Junior Senior, Leeds Cockpit
One song and already this band have a lot to live up to. But if releasing the catchiest single you will hear this year, ‘Move your feet’, wasn’t enough, tonight’s supporting DJ’s play the best pre-gig set-list I’ve ever heard. Skipping from 80’s classics like Wham and the Eurythmics to 50 cent and the Beastie Boys with everything in between, the crowd are so worked up by the time Junior Senior appear onstage that its impossible to imagine how they can possibly live up to the hype.
I needn’t have worried. Simply put, the Danish duo plays the most fun pop you could wish for. Starting with album opener ‘Go Junior go Senior’, they are ridiculously enthusiastic and we just have to dance. Every song is bouncier than the last and you can’t help but be charmed by Junior’s shyness and Senior’s sleaziness. As they roll out tune after tune from their debut album ‘d-d-don’t don’t stop the beat’ the dancing gets more and more frenzied both on and off stage, and by the time ‘Move your feet’ begins most people have forgotten that was the song they came to hear. But the high point has to be when they bring out one of their backing singers to sing the only song not taken from their album, a cover of ‘Twist and shout’ which segue-ways seamlessly into Salt’n’Pepa’s ‘Push it’. Joyful.
When Senior asks how many people have bought the album, half the room responds. If the way people were dancing is anything to go by, the other half will have rushed out to buy it the next morning. They put so-called pop bands like S Club, Atomic Kitten et al to shame – this band deserves to be huge. If you only see one band this summer, do yourself a favour and make it Junior Senior.
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