LIVE: Ceremony / High–Vis / Child’s Pose @ New Cross Inn, London

For Ceremony’s first London show since August 2015, they chose an unassuming, 350–capacity pub in South East London for the venue, and sold it out weeks in advance. It means that, on this miserable Monday night, the New Cross Inn is teeming with body heat, sweat, and anticipation – and foremost in the minds of some attendees is the issue of whether the band’s set tonight will focus on the hardcore material from their first three albums, or lean more towards the garage/post-punk/new wave songs on their last three. Kicking things off are Child’s Pose, a London indie–punk four–piece comprising members of Sauna Youth and Self Defense Family. Their first songs are unremarkable, but the latter half of their seven–song set picks up the pace and the energy of their lead vocalist generates a ...