The result was an opening segment that jumped chaotically between the soulful harmonies of \u2018Do You Want Me Now\u2019 to the slower, emotionally vulnerable \u2018Jump Rope Gazers\u2019, to harder-rocking \u2018Less Than Thou\u2019, featuring a shredding solo from guitarist Jonathan Pearce and repeated screams of \u201clet me out! Let me out!\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThose were some interesting key and tempo changes,\u201d bass guitarist Benjamin Sinclair dryly noted. It certainly wasn\u2019t the song order they\u2019d script for themselves, but strangeness made it all the more memorable.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Liz Stokes, Ben Sinclair, Tristan Deck and Jonathan Pearce of The Beths.<\/p>\n
The middle section of the show was decided by throwing a large plush toy fish around the crowd. Whoever caught it could pick a song by speaking into a microphone inside the fish\u2019s mouth. After someone asked to hear \u2018Whatever\u2019, drummer Tristan Deck replied \u201coh, so we can play any song we want?\u201d to a mixture of laughs and groans.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then, a tombola was rolled out on stage filled with coloured balls. Each ball they plucked out represented a different way of deciding who got to pick the next song: the tallest person in the crowd, the person who had seen them live the most times, anyone attending their first gig.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re trying some hectic shit,\u201d Stokes said, before apologising (twice) for swearing. The band fished around on stage for other paper planes. Someone who had turned their paper plane into an origami swan caught Stokes\u2019 attention. Another was picked for its impressive calligraphy.<\/p>\n