Library Rock's Backpages

of Montreal: Academy 2, Manchester

Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 7 October 2010

THE STAGE IS DOMINATED by a large, caped figure, wearing a three-foot goldfish on his head, and firing fake guns at the crowd. This bizarre creature then attacks another masked stage monster in a blitz of strobes and computer graphics. Somewhere in this chaos, of Montreal's colourful singer Kevin Barnes flicks away his fringe and launches into the bittersweet 'Coquet Coquette', the killer track on their current album, False Priest.

Total word count of piece: 296

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.