Yeasayer played to a packed-out room at London's King's College last night (August 20), watched by fellow New Yorkers MGMT.
Taking to the venue's leg in strawman of a 600-strong crowd, the banding played songs from their 2007 debut album 'All Hour Cymbals', as well as two new songs, 'Amblin' Alp' and 'Lovely'.
Talking to the crowd at the Club Uncut nox, curated by Uncut magazine, lead vocalist Chris Keating joked around the dry ice weed being lit up by green lighting: "We love playing England because you have dragons. Fire-breathing dragons, we don't have them in America."
Later, Keating invited MGMT to join them onstage, just the geminate refused.
"I don't know if, Ben (Goldwasser) and Andrew (VanWyngarden), you want to come up here and conjoin us or anything?� asked the singer, before laughing, "I guess peradventure they've already left!"
Yeasayer played:
'Forgiveness'
'Tightrope'
'Amblin' Alp'
'No Need to Worry'
'Red Cave'
'Waves/Worms'
'Wait For The Summer'
'Final Path'
'Lovely'
'2080'
'Sunrise'
'Wait For The Wintertime'
For more information on Club Uncut head to Uncut.co.uk. Read the Uncut review article of the evening here.
Yeasayer are now set to play on the NME/Radio 1 Stage at the Reading And Leeds Festivals this weekend (August 22-24), at Leeds on Friday (22) and Reading on Sunday (24).
NME.COM will be bringing you live reportage straight from both sites of the Reading And Leeds Festivals 2008. For the up-to-the-minute news, blogs, pictures and video interviews head to the Reading And Leeds Festivals exponent now.
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