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6 / 10 The Pigeon Detectives are one of Britain’s most fashionable bands. Faris Badwan will listen to little else. Kode 9 has dropped them mid-set. But they’ve ballsed it up by putting that synth intro on the start of the first track here. Those three seconds of stuttering electronica simply take their reputation for leftfield experimentalism too far.

Thankfully, such wilful pretension buggers off, and the rest is a more quality-controlled set than last time of big-chorus, The Cribs-riffing indie comfort food to spoon into your slothful mouth while telling your pals you only listen to tUnE-yArDs. They look set to outlast the indie boom years that spawned them.

Gavin Haynes

6/10

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Date/Time	Venue	Town/City	Seetickets	Viagogo
Oct 17, 2013	The Lemon Tree	Aberdeen	Buy The Pigeon Detectives Tickets from £14	Buy The Pigeon Detectives Tickets
Oct 18, 2013	Fat Sams	Dundee	Buy The Pigeon Detectives Tickets from £14	Buy The Pigeon Detectives Tickets
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Oct 25, 2013	Academy 2	Manchester	Buy The Pigeon Detectives Tickets from £14	Buy The Pigeon Detectives Tickets
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Nov 02, 2013	Leeds Metropolitan University	Leeds	Buy The Pigeon Detectives Tickets from £14	Buy The Pigeon Detectives Tickets