A Matt & Kim show is something every live music lover must experience at least once in their life, if not repeatedly every time the group visits their respective town.
Eager punters lined the stage at The Zoo, gearing up and securing a spot for Brooklyn’s dynamic duo, who are known for delivering a performance like no other.
The talk in the crowd was completely band-based, and as lighting struck the stage and the band ran out dancing to gangster club music, what was to be an incredibly wild night began.
It certainly wasn’t a G-rated performance, the completion of the first number sparking Matt to introduce Kim as his “partner in crime and partner in sex,” with Kim replying “I’m going to fuck the shit out of you tonight.”
Though it was a Wednesday night, the crowd was ready to party and the expletives of the Brooklyn duo only roused them to cheer louder and dance harder.
Matt & Kim put on a real show. Confetti guns and wild dancing in between songs coupled with explosions of graphics proved the twio-piece do what they do for three reasons: because they can, because it it’s fun and because the audience love it.
That said, the glitter which adorned their performance took nothing away from their actual music. With only a keyboard and a drum set, the pair’s simplicity, energy and hook-ridden tunes were no match for The Zoo’s occupants, the mosh pit ablaze from front to back.
Old flames ‘Silver Tiles’ and ‘Good Ol’ Fashioned Nightmare’ were played amongst jams from their new album Lightning. ‘Now’ was incredible, the pair throwing balloons into the crowd with instructions to blow them up and let them go on the count of four. As the countdown finished they exploded into the tune, the audience chanting as if it was 12am on New Years and balloons were falling from the sky.
Between Kim cheersing people who had beers in the audience and Matt high-fiving everyone, the two crazy New Yorkers were alight with a love for what they did and they shared that love with everything they had.
In ‘Good ForGreat,’ “we sing along but the notes are wrong” could have been heard all through Fortitude Valley, Kim exclaiming at the end “Andy, I might have broken the snare drum.” She continued to hit it with the same amount of spunk and happiness just the same though, with ‘Let’s Go’ seeing hands in the air and a sea of sore feet being excitedly tread on by other members of the crowd.
Speaking of feet, around three quarters through the set the audience was informed by the lady herself that she would be standing above the punters in question, and that they were to put their hands up and not “fuck up like Sydney did.
With that she mounted the edge of the stage, placed one foot carefully in the hands of the crowd, and proceeded to walk over them like Jesus on water, except with a whole lot of booty popping and hip-hop beats being played over the speakers.
Everyone had a magnificent time, proving what the band preached at the end of their set about doing whatever it is you love to do, a life motto the pair are obviously living to the extreme.
It is when it becomes impossible to take notes, impossible to do anything but jump and sing and become completely lost in a show that you know you have witnessed something incredible. Arguably one of the best shows The Zoo has ever held in its raging arms, Matt & Kim were spectacular.
