One of the reasons I came to London was to take advantage of the opportunities see some more musicians do what they love doing and at a more reasonable price than the AU$70+ that some can charge back home. The first lesson that you learn when you first start looking is that it can take a while to actually get some tickets, with many artists selling out months in advance. This Saturday I finally got to see my first act, Mylo at the Brixton Academy.

The Brixton Academy has been voted many times as one of the better venues in London and understandably so. The building itself is an older building having been built in 1929 and its two floors has enough capacity for 4921 people (although it certainly felt like more on Saturday). The ground floor, and most likely the top one, is on a slight incline so that even if you are standing at the back, you have a good chance of seeing the stage instead of just the sea of people in front of you.

The doors to the Academy opened at 9 and like most dance acts, Mylo didn’t actually come on until after midnight (I think closer to 1). Before Mylo there were a few DJs that helped to warm up the crowd with a mix of some classic club tracks and even some cheesy 80s and early 90s songs. As for Mylo, I had heard and read that his performances were generally disappointing as it was just him DJing but it was obvious that he’d been working hard to change that perception. He had on stage with him a couple of other people doing various things as well as a massive screen and several tubes of light pulsating and cycling through images all in perfect time with the music. Mylo even had a go at playing a bit of sythn guitar to vary it up

To be honest I was pretty impressed with the entire night especially just because the atmosphere of the place was amazing. Mylo mixed all of his tracks from Destroy Rock ‘N’ Roll and predictably topped off his final encore with his most crowd-pleasingly tracks Muscle Car, and Drop the Pressure.

The only let down of the evening was probably the two night buses I had to catch home, taking me over an hour and a half to get home. It was still a great experience and certainly one that I would do again in a flash.