Actual dancing

K & I went to an actual gig last weekend. It wasnt the first we had been at since things have slowly begun opening up, but it was the most 'normal'.

Earlier in March, Joelistics' launch at Howler had been entirely seated and Ai Yamamoto's gig at Melbourne Recital Centre had been seated and masked, but the CS + Kreme gig at the Curtin was like the old days - no seats, no masks - even though it was at lowered capacity. We arrived in time for Jonnine, playing with a full band, to play a set of what might be described as 'ketamine-trip-hop', equal parts AR Kane and Tricky, and The XX - but entirely without forward motion, a kind of numbness, everything held is stasis. CS + Kreme were fantastic too - and live, I became a lot more aware of their sparkling drum programming that reminded me a lot of early 00s Timbaland, with jittery triplets, that lifted their foggy dub productions into something approximating danceability.