Deerhoof | Me Misplaced Me
Olby’s Artistic Hub, Margate, Kent – Dwell Overview
thirtieth July 2025
San Francisco’s Deerhoof capped off the UK leg of their newest tour with a visit to the seaside as they performed at Olby’s Artistic Hub in Margate’s Previous City. Beneath Olby’s Soul Cafe, the place by the way you’ll be able to “discover the very best roast on the coast”, Deerhoof, supported as soon as once more by folktronic experimentalist Me Misplaced Me, introduced their distinctive model and fascinating efficiency to the Kent coast.
Earlier than heading off to Belgium, Norway, Sweden after which Denmark, the multi-talented quartet of drummer Greg Saunier, singer and bassist Satomi Matsuzaki, and guitarists John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez displayed why they’re each lauded and liked. Of their thirty one years, the band, as soon as described as “the very best band on this planet” by Pitchfork, have clearly finely honed their unbelievable expertise to supply an astonishing barrage of noise.
Showing on stage forward of Deerhoof was Newcastle’s very personal, Me Misplaced Me, aka Jayne Dent. Dent confessed that she’d paid the additional £15 to e book into her lodge room early in order that she may do “all of the vacationer s**t”. She stated she’d visited the Crab Museum, the Shell Grotto and the seashore; “It’s OK”, she stated, however I’m from the North East, so I’m biased”. In her inexperienced velour gown (Fairly presumably a hand-me-down from Maid Marian), crimson ballet pumps and black socks, Jayne performed a half hour set largely drawn from her newest album, This Materials Second. Starting with the LP’s opening observe, Helpful Analogies, Dent delivered a really earnest set, full with skilful vocal loops.
After performing observe on observe, Compromise!, and earlier than beginning her subsequent, A Portray Of The Wind, she tried to clarify her inspiration. In a rambling monologue, Jayne stated it began together with her obsession with work of the stainless conception after which continued to clarify how artists typically try to justify or embellish their work. In direction of the tip of her set, Dent thanked the viewers earlier than letting them know she had albums and CDs on the market on the again, which she’d “moderately be purchased than taken again up on the practice to Newcastle”. Dent then concluded her set with Warmth! a observe from her 2023 album, PRG.
Deerhoof took to the basement stage of Olby’s at 9pm for a 70 minute, 20 observe set that was as intense because it was explosive. From begin to end, there was barely any let up except for three temporary pauses, certainly one of which was the break earlier than the one observe encore! Founding band member Saunier led from stage proper, orchestrating proceedings from his drum equipment. Like an actual life incarnation of Animal from the Muppets, Greg gave a grasp class in percussive excellence. In his light polo shirt, white low slung skinny denims and odd socks, the very trim Saunier would undoubtedly have been banned by the The Promoting Requirements Authority (ASA) had he been forged as an M&S mannequin!
The hardly fettered violence that Saunier inflicted on the drum equipment was a spectacle to behold. Along with his lengthy hair seemingly transferring in each path directly and his arms flailing at breakneck velocity, Greg’s efficiency was fairly unbelievable at instances. What the appreciative crowd witnessed tonight was removed from chaos; it was a sequence of finely tuned detonations, percussive pyrotechnics delivered with skilful precision and pinpoint accuracy.
Greg’s bandmates, Satomi, John and Ed, gave equally adept performances as they showcased their particular person prowess on their very own devices. Moments of reduction and levity had been few and much between, however there have been a pair. About 5 songs in, John tapped Satomi’s mic and sang a falsetto word. Greg stood up from his drums and stated he would try to make “the inexplicable, explicable”. He defined that John was chasing an “errant word that he’d heard someplace within the PA”.
Saunier’s fastidiously chosen phrases had been spoken in stark distinction to his percussive model. If his drumming was delivered at supersonic velocity, then his vocal supply can solely be described as glacial. In his second handle to the gang just a little afterward, Greg stated, “at this juncture” he’d wish to thank each certainly one of you for coming to this place, not the opposite one” Olby’s being a final minute substitute for The Lido, the unique venue.
From the opening observe, Future Teenage Cave Artists, by way of newer cuts, Sparrow Sparrow, Return Of The Return Of The Hearth Trick Star, Overrated Species Anyhow and Kingtoe, all from the most recent album, Noble And God Like In Break, by way of to the finale of Dangerous Youngsters To The Entrance, Deerhoof had been on level. Their dedication to their artwork was clear to see because the focus and experience with which they performed was maintained all through. Deerhoof’s aural onslaught, and Satomi’s very occasional interpretative dance strikes, made for an additional memorable evening in Margate.
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All phrases by Andrew Lockwood. Extra writing by Andrew Lockwood may be discovered at his writer’s archive.
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