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Dartz! - The Sumo, Leicester 25/02
Dartz! & Rotary Ten - The Social, Nottingham 26/02

It's a Sunday night and Dartz! are gracing Leicester for the second time in 6 months; however the venue is surprisingly empty: Leicester's loss. Tonight Dartz! are very good. The only bad thing I could probably say about them is that they don't vary too much from their basic template: technical guitar part, aggressively-dancey drum beat, call and response vocal parts, maybe some tapping, big pop hook to finish. Having said that, it is an ace template for a song; the breakdown at the end of "The Lives Of Authors"; the hand claps of "Prego Triangolos"; the whole of "Once, Twice, Again!"; Dartz! play one fantastic song again and again. So good I decided to tag along with Rotary Ten to the Nottingham gig the next day.
A much better turnout (it wasn't a Sunday and it wasn't Leicester) and an even better set from Dartz! Again they open with b-side "Lines" and from then on then on they are spot on. Yes, I said "spot on". I should also mention Rotary Ten's set: they busted out yet more new material, including a nice feedback loop/syncopated hand clap part. Good guys, good set. I've run out of ideas. Just listen to them here. They're very good.

For completist's sake, there were also three support bands: Kalena (bad indie), Comic Boy (bad acoustic-emo) and Alisha Smiles (bad intricate emo).

A final note, the previous' posts comparison of Craig Finn from The Hold Steady and George Costanza should have been credited to Chris "Chris" Turnpenny. So there you go.