New Cambridge band The Resistance aren't a talkative bunch: they don't even have a singer. But then, who needs one when you can have feedback: a piercing wail of tortured electricity scouring its way through the sound in a manner which human ears aren't meant to enjoy as much as mine do.
Throughout their set the three black-clad band members stand onstage in intense, wordless concentration, breaking only to fiddle with one of the vast array of effects pedals before them. Using two guitars(one for feedback, one for noise) and a laptop serving as both drum machine and general noise maker, The Resistance made the kind of guitar-based dance music which should by rights have been played to a darkened, heaving club dancefloor. It sounds a little like Suicide might have if they substituted feedback for vocals, a little like the Dr Who theme tune, and was absolutely beautiful in an eerie sort of way.
Spine tingling electro with a human face of rapt concentration/fascination. What a
good idea.

Holliy Davies