Dance Night: Caribou and Holy Fuck - the best night of the week

If Hallogallo were worthy headliners for the opening night, my other three personal choices (Autolux, Holy Fuck, Caribou) appeared in quick succession on Tuesday, making for the best night of the week in my opinion.

Londoners Factory Floor's dark post-punk sound starts the night that has a more Alternative feel. Joy Division meets electronica and krautrock.

Autolux are a band that doesn't perform enough this side of the Atlantic in my view. This, and Monday's London show, their first performances over here in 2 ½ years. Record label woes meant a protracted delay in their follow up to 2004’s Future Perfect. Now signed to ATP, this year saw the eventual release of the long-awaited Transit Transit.

A welcome set of Alt. Rock laced with Shoegaze anyway, Carla Azar on drums continues to give Janet Weiss a run for her money. The set showcases both albums in equal measure; 'Plantlife' gets the cheer, 'Sub-Zero Fun' perhaps sums up the week with the continued freezing conditions outside. They might have been looking forward to their return to L.A., you couldn't blame them. "Thanks for coming out and huddling together for warmth with us" says bassist/lead vocals man Eugene Goreshter.

It's been a good couple of years for Caribou and (Dr) Dan Snaith, with something of a breakthrough into a more mainstream audience. One of the bands of the moment anyway, a trademark set of his relentless upbeat electronic beats, guitar and drums. Grooves that have people dancing for the first time this week anyway, a perfectly structured set, mathematical precision. It's my third time seeing them this year, and a much more intimate experience this time. "It's like playing amongst friends, because many of you are friends" says Snaith.

The dancing party atmosphere, something of a rarity these past few days, continues with a superb Holy Fuck set. Like Caribou, experimental and improvised electronica, usually a genre I’d steer well clear of, but not with these last two acts. Driving beats that build slowly to a crescendo. The last time I caught them was on the John Peel stage at Glastonbury a few years ago, they've become a much tighter outfit in the interceding years. Probably the set of the week anyway.

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