We will not describe where we met Philippe, bass player of Versus,who is  playing tonight at the Underworld. We do not divulgue such details on this site. BUT the result is there...We went to see Versus at the Underworld...
The crowd was friendly enough but oh so different from all the other gigs we recently saw at the Underworld, from Mab to Spit Like This. Tonight there were no (or hardly any) long haired boys, and it was more of a friday night out gathering of well dressed girls and guys. .
 The previous band called Chorus, from Essex, was quite entertaining for the first few songs, as the lead singer seemed to be rather out of it on alcohol (or anything else that makes someone wobbles around on stage and nearly fall over several times) but the stage was like a huge puddle when it was time for Versus to come on...
When it was time to start, the guitarists and drummer of Versus came on, starting an intro, dressed casually in jeans and tshirts.
 Then we saw the singer,  suddenly popping out of behind the curtains, dancing in rhythm with the music....Dressed in a very neat white suit and scarf, he obviously stood out straight away...The first songs came on...
The singer is someone who grew on me very quickly.  He is a man of freedom, someone who is liberated, and in touch with his feminin side, his emotions came out strongly, and he obviously refuses the conditionnment men are supposed to go through in society.
He sings with his heart, but also dances away, expresses his strong inner self and extravaganza through this band and singing act.
The rest of the band was very different, being 4 French guys, when the singer left the stage to leave space for the instrumentals... Watching the rest of the band was like being transported away from London, somewhere in the Savana, in Africa, where you are walking along and suddenly see and feel part of a group of feline animals, tigers, panthers, walking along, smoothly, graciously, strongly and slightly threatening in an hypnotic way. But their beauty of movement, this artistic feel they show, really reminds me of a bare savana... Then the singer came on again, and there I saw a  butterfly amongst these walking felines, flying freely in the warm African air. I have not yet seen a band which had such strong feel about them, all in a group, and then one entity of the band to feel that different. The music was good, and tight together. Roses arosed from the crowd at some point,adding to the extravaganza... Their music is poppy, but very rocky at the same time, and a guitar guest also made a special apparance to do a guitar solo at the end of one of the songs. Versus re definitly a band who's out there... O-F