the Kills- Yes Wow and No vocals?
AB 2004, 18 January

Arriving fashionably early, I had the time to think about the the show. I was wondering if it was going to be a really concert or a press event. But it wasn't my first Kills concert. Far from it. So I didn't really expect an only for the press event. But around 9.05 p.m. They arrived. Hotel with a t-shirt with a girl that looks like VV. While VV was just VV, a Debbie Harris meets Nico styled rock star. And the logical consequence of their arrival is that I was filled with joy. But I then... the horror!... Who ever was in charge of the sound should get a bullet right through his head. You could only hear a soft background like vocal because someone left the volume of the guitars wide open. And yes the rest of the night I could hardly hear V.V.'s or Hotels voice. But thanks to XFM and the world web and their stop at the pukkelpopfestival, I already had the lyrics in my head.
But from what I could hear was a trip through the gutters and the dirty streets from London (Paxton perhaps?).

They kicked off with No Wow! theme song fromt their new album No Wow, the song is like Superstion where the kills have a more raw electro-sound. And they followed it up with Cat Claw, and even the journalist started bouncing their head a bit more. Other songs like Dead Road seven, Hate the way you love, Love is a deserter have a more garage-rock electro sound, or a more post-punk sound.
They also played with the sexy-agressive vibe that is now official Kills-vibe. The Kills put down a nice show and even if VV trips over her own microphone she still does it with a certain rock'n'roll attitude.

And you can't never say that a Kills concert is always the same. Because, in contrary with bands like the hives -where you cleary go to a "show"- the kills are people where on stage experience has a more carpe diem like attitude. Another "shocking" fact is that for the first time ever VV pushed Hotel away from her. Which surprised me because she usually adores Hotel madly. Something Rotten in the State of Killsmark?

Anyway they rounded things up with their Captain Beefheart cover, and for a strange reason when the last note of Drop Out Boogie was echoing through the Vox speaker, a part of the audience was convinced that they had seen a concert that wasn't just another one in the row.

Later that evening was even better but maybe it clouded my judgement a bit.
the kills official site, with the new video
some live video's from the kills