The Princess Theatre became a disco for the night as everyone, dressed in black, swayed to Molchat Doma last Thursday (15 June) as part of the venue's Open Season programme.
Although South Side Ballroom’s entrance policies have become as strict as Six Flags’ (everyone must enter through a metal detector and have their bags searched if they are carrying cameras), the stress and confusion brought about by the venue didn’t matter once Molchat Doma entered the stage.
Molchat Doma and Nuovo Testamento are both revivalist acts that pay homage to the club culture of Europe in the late 1980s. This was a pivotal moment in underground music, with rock and electronic instruments intermixing to create a futuristic sound that seemed to perfectly capture the tension of the era.
Something remarkable happened when Egor Shkutko stepped up to the mic for a recent sold-out show at 9:30 Club: He filled the club with his expressive and powerful voice, filling the room with sonorous, occasionally forlorn
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