Tonight the emerging talent are London indie duo White Powder Gold. Jamie and Jermaine renounce the typical skinny jeans and mop bucket hair associated with landfill indie and their brand of music is similarly rebellious. Their performance is raw and unpolished and all the more visceral for it. They bounce around the corner of Foggs bar between midi-keyboards and mic stands, shouting the hook of debut single ‘You Can’t Stop Me Now’ that the audience have no trouble joining in with.

Live, these guys reek of punk and rock influences, delivering their vocals with ferocious energy as their guitarist lets lose and their drummer bangs the shit out his skins. On record their music is simultaneously brash and thoughtful. ‘You Can’t Stop Me Now’ has already got props from Joseph ‘JP’ Patterson on the BBC Introducing show and has been remixed by Devlin’s producer Lee White who turned it into a guttural dubstep monster. The original is a rowdy mixture of grungy guitar and Brit Pop set off by the London twang in their catchy lyrics that are delivered with fervor and abandon. Lee White’s remix is the ASBO toting cousin with a deep gargling bass who’ll rob you down a dark alley and then take your girlfriend out with the profits.

The Line-Up’s proof will lie in which bands do go on to achieve commercial success, and if White Powder Gold’s future releases have the heart and cross pollination that’s present in ‘You Can’t Stop Me Now’ then you won’t be able to stop them, now or ever.

The Line-Up
Foggs Bar, Fri 29th April
Words By Zac Colbert