robots in diguise, islington academy

There are two robots, made of cardboard, dancing badly, behind the two girls. Despite the fact the girls are singing and bouncing, gripping a guitar, a bass, the robots, the taped-together robots have everyone’s attention. Because whilst the two girls called their band Robots In Disguise, everyone’s wondering if the two robot suits really are a disguise and, if the robot heads were removed, we would we be seeing Noel Fielding and Julian Barrat aka Vince Noir and Howard Moon from The Mighty Boosh.
The Boosh boys are probably the hippest comedians in Britain at the moment and Robots In Disguise are benefiting from their association. Dee Plume and Sue Denim, the women of Robots In Disguise, have appeared in series one as the Electro Girls and series two as the Goth Girls, plus Plume is Fielding’s long-term girlfriend.
Their Mighty Boosh characters are always the coolest girls around, rejecting Vince and Howard for not living up to their levels of hip, onstage, they look to down-to-earth, despite their sci-fi-babe wear, and fun. By having a laugh they save themselves, turn kitsch into cool. What the Robots’ girls make is warm-hearted new-wave electro; they’re Ladytron with a dressing up box, a bargain Blondie and they fully deserve more than sidekick status.
The dancing robots never did unmask and in the end it didn’t matter.