The Null Club is Alan Duggan-Borges. Alan is also in Gilla Band. Clearly Alan likes to make lots of noise whether he is playing with the Null Club or Gilla Band. This man clearly likes to switch everything up to excessively loud and go.
Ok, enough about the volume. Alan played three keyboards and a guitar all at the same time – he was working extremely hard for our musical pleasure. And pleasure it was. The violence of a guitar being beaten over the pulse of an electronic throb. Some additional layers of keyboard on repeat inducing in equal amounts both repulsion and attraction. The brain doesn’t know whether to move closer to the sound or run for the door. Really powerful stuff when those type of emotions are triggered.
The only released output, an EP features some guest vocalists including Valentine from OneBigHouse favourites Mandy, Indiana on one of the songs. That probably outlines what most of this Null Club set reminds us – a glorious mix of Mandy, Indiana and Gilla Band. We can assure you that’s a big recommendation from us.
We don’t know what Alan intends to do with the Null Club, and maybe we don’t need to know as we forever have this moment. If it’s a one-off then so be it, but we hope there’s more to come and more to enjoy. Gilla Band (when trading as Girl Band) destroyed our hearing many years ago in the Arnolfini. Alan may have done it once more, but we look forward to it happening again in the future.
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