{"id":19761,"date":"2019-11-08T12:53:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T12:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/?p=19761"},"modified":"2019-11-09T14:56:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T14:56:18","slug":"review-life-at-the-cookie-tuesday-5th-november-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/review-life-at-the-cookie-tuesday-5th-november-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Review – LIFE at The Cookie, Tuesday 5th November 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The gig was organised by\u00a0 The Cookie<\/a><\/p>\n

Reviewed by Aleksandra Brzezicka<\/a><\/p>\n

After LIFE<\/strong>\u2019s set at Handmade Festival 2019 (read our review here<\/a>), there was little, if any, chance that their so high set bar of absolute amazingness could ever be beaten. Then they came back, played at The Cookie and made us all go completely mad.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s LIFE. From Hull.<\/p>\n

Despite their second album A Picture Of Good Health<\/em> being slightly less political and more personal, there is always a place for raging roasting of government and screaming along with the vocalist, Mez Green, \u2018F*ck Tories.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"\"LIFE Photo: Keith Jobey<\/p>\n

Opening up with Excites Me<\/em>, they\u2019ve made already a pretty excited crowd, an ecstatic mass of joy. Despite being placed somewhere in the positive post-punk wave that\u2019s currently flooding basements of local venues, LIFE does not only put us in a good mood. It\u2019s rowdy riffs and shouty go-to mantra lyrics boil our blood while we\u2019re squeaking from pleasure. Never felt more alive. Dedicated to the youth, live version of In Your Hands<\/em> wasn\u2019t another p*ss-taking pseudo-motivating anthem but an authentic smack in the ass.<\/p>\n

\"\"LIFE Photo: Keith Jobey<\/p>\n

LIFE is a cruel dictator who orders not to give up. To look in the eyes of nihilistic nonsense, pre-packed pointless future and spit in its face. Euromillions<\/em> made a mockery of \u2018the right side of the law.\u2019 It\u2019s A Con<\/em> revealed consumer\u2019s culture art of fakery. Bum Hour,<\/em> a groovy earworm, let the moral obligations go for a moment of relaxation. If you can relax in the wild mosh pit where you\u2019re not sure whether you jump bumped into your mate or a band member.<\/p>\n

Life is a political and emotional turmoil of disturbing, deeply throat-cutting lyrics with nonchalantly nuclear instrumental, thrown into the irony soaking existential void. Not a smooth pill to swallow. Still, LIFE\u2019s fiery performance, led by charmingly charismatic Mez, turned us into addicts.<\/p>\n

Now, all we want to do is to get high on LIFE. Hope that the new dose is about to arrive because it\u2019s the best I\u2019ve taken in months.<\/p>\n

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