Mi Ami are one of the best live bands I’ve seen this year. I saw them manage to make a whole room of hipsters, fat people who’d grown beards so that people at gigs will call them ‘beardy’ rather than ‘fat’, and muso blog bastards dance violently to the visceral rhythms of their live show. It looked like shit, but it was still an achievement. You could totally tell that two of them used to be in legendary chaotic punk band Black Eyes, especially when right at the start of the gig frontman Daniel ran straight into the crowd spilling lots of other people’s beer, knocking people over and treading on the Pitchfork vibes. Read more »
