All I can say is..wow!! InnerPartySystem are one great band to see live.

The Pennsylvania four-some toured the UK and one of those dates had hit Cardiff. Only playing in Barfly, but that’s understandable considering this is the first time they had travelled to Britain. This didn’t stop InnerPartySystem producing an electrifying set with half of the venue full of a Topshop window display kids.

With a little help from InnerPartySystem’s sound man, the band was able to pull off live granular synthesis. This, I never thought was possible to do live and had left me speechless. I have to admit I was focusing on the sound guy producing live backing vocal mixes and shredding up the music more than the band themselves at certain points. InnerPartySystem wouldn’t be InnerPartySystem without this guy who was placed behind the crowd and I have to push most of the credits towards him.

I’m not saying the band members were shit and had to rely on the secret fifth member. Patrick (vocals), Jared (drums and vocals), Kris (guitar, synth and vocals) and Jesse (synth, samples and vocals) were just as fantastic on stage. All four didn’t have a dry piece of clothing on them anywhere; they performed as if they had just played to an arena sell out crowd. Patrick’s vocals (non effects vocals) were sounding perfect all the way through.

‘Way We Move’, like all of the songs had bouncy, sliced, dynamic synth sounds. But the big winner of the night was when InnerPartySystem played their last song which happened to be their single, ‘Don’t Stop’ which lives on Scuzz tv at the moment. And surprise, surprise the crowd only seemed to know that song and went wild over it. The energy they had was outstanding and they managed to keep that energy all the way through to the very end.

I’ve heard that they will be coming back in September and I really cannot wait. I really liked this band before I saw them live; now I like them even more. I advise you to see them live if you ever get the chance.