Review – The Last Shadow Puppets, Leeds Festival, NME Stage, Friday

Making their Leeds Festival bow, The Last Shadow Puppets played to a packed out NME tent backed by a full orchestra.

Alex Turner and Miles Kane entered the stage dressed in smart attire – Turner in a suit – and opened with ‘Calm Like You’, from their recent album ‘The Age of the Understatement’.

The duo dropped b-side ‘Gas Dance’ and new song ‘Hang the Cyst’ into the set halfway through, after treating the masses of fans to a rousing ‘Age of the Understatement’.

Miles Kane, who had played earlier on in the day with his original band ‘The Rascals’, then announced ‘we are the Kaiser Chiefs’, which triggered a chorus of boos from the Leeds crowd.

They then finished on a stirring version of recent single ‘Standing Next to Me’, and album track ‘In My Room’.

Turner and Kane then played tributes to the orchestra, then drummer, Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford, before exiting the stage to a rapturous applause.