The Liminanas/Dead Mint – Camden Electric Ballroom (12 April, 2025)

Our spaceship landed in beautiful Camden (sarcasm alert) on Saturday afternoon. The on board computer suggested it was an ideal place to experience an evening of gratuitous sonic excellence. It was not wrong.

We witnessed a relatively new Nottingham band Dead Mint support the greatest band in the world,  at least until the next one comes along, The Liminanas.

At 7.30 precisely Dead Mint took to the stage, led by vocalist and bassist Amy J Bean, they proceeded to thrash into submission tunes from their nine track self produced debut album.

Thankfully the crowd warmed to them, and the band inhabiting  some bizarre musical landscape between Black Sabbath vol 4 and the The Ruts first album. They were top notch and the best thing to come out of Nottingham since the A52.

Is it psychedelic punk ? Don’t ask me I was drunk. Just do yourself a favour and check out that new debut album. It holds promise for future dabblement.

There followed a thirty minute break in which the venue filled up and the excitement became tangible and the beer seemed to get more expensive.

Here we go. Strap in for The Liminanas.

With their new album Faded securely under their French belts they proceed to ramp up the motorik rhythm to previously unheard of heights. Shout, Salvation and Spirale were excellent, well everything was actually.

The band is currently a six piece with husband and wife Lionel and Marie at its core but when they all synchronise it becomes a fuzzed up rock and roll behemoth.

It’s not unlike an orgasm in space (I had at least three).

The addition of  Clémence Lasme  playing some really heavy bass really fleshed out their sound and they have a manic guitarist who jumped around throwing shapes like a very animated Frenchman with his arse on fire.

Covers tonight included The Cramps and The Velvets but it was their ten minute version of Rocket USA by Suicide that blew everybody away. At this point the backdrop was showing something akin to the Big Bang on a loop, at its centre was a black hole, at one point I entered that hole and I’m still in there.

File this one under EPIC.