Queens Social Club, Sheffield
After creating a tidal wave of media interest by initially not talking to the media, Manchester's mysterious World Unite! Lucifer Youth Foundation have chosen a typically incongruous venue to launch a short UK tour. Glittery purple streamers back the stage. A sign reminds parents to keep children quiet "while bingo is being played".
When the band's followers ? many in Wu Lyf T-shirts, who gyrate and gesticulate wildly ? rush forward, it feels like an episode of Phoenix Nights gatecrashed by a religious sect. But then, this feels more like a happening than a gig. Ellery Roberts's lyrics are so unintelligible he could be singing in Hungarian; his wolf-like growl is so throaty you half expect his larynx to fly into the crowd. Are Wu Lyf situationist, KLF-type pranksters? Or on a mission to sound something like Roky Erickson backed by Yeasayer?
For all the weirdness, they are clearly fabulous musicians who have created their own sound. Joe Manning's unconventional drum grooves underpin Evans Kati's virtuoso guitar, which flits from psychedelia to hi-life. The resulting songs are dark, beautiful and ridiculously euphoric.
Their marketing may arouse suspicions, but these are clearly four young men (and additional mates who wander on stage) having a lot of fun. At one point, the band adopt Roberts's "Liberty, equality, nudity" T-shirt slogan and start removing garments. One rap namechecks hip-hop's dead (Tupac, Eazy E) and Barnsley FC.
"Everyone who joins us on stage will have a memorable experience," declares bassist Tom McClung, and the Wu sect get up to sing Heavy Pop's hypnotic "I wanna feel at home" mantra.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/13/wu-lyf-review
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