Watching the Bee Stings play at the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club last Sunday night was a real treat. The band played a night called ‘Boxbot’ where attendees make their own robot outfit from the materials provided – you heard me – this leads to something called Boxfactor. All set around a vaudeville style stage. See venue review for lurid details. Luckily their music is just as idiosyncratic, Dance-Rock-Pop-Electro ….oh who cares probably all of the above in all the right proportions. Whilst the band has genre flux they certainly don’t lack identity, listening to them live they present a well-rehearsed band with a love of their own music ….and maybe each other! While tracks vary in pace each one has a multilayered quality mixing plenty of live bass and drums with some programmed material and synth. Tracks like ‘Misadventure’ take you straight into a bangin ‘Underworld’ style intro lightened by Valkyrie’s lead vocals, the track then builds itself to epic proportions. ‘Pressure Running Away’ is real pop/rock fusion; a bouncy intro swiftly dips into some punk style vocals, really showing the bands diversity and energy. My main point of excitement about this band was listening to their complex, punchy album – Life by Misadventure – better was listening to it performed live to the same high standard. Claire Quinn