Working Men's Club bring the queue and the quiet to EartH

Working Men's Club played Earth Hall in Dalston on Saturday night, opening the bill beneath Mandy, Indiana and headliners Psychedelic Porn Crumpets. The crowd was packed, and the queue for the set snaked all the way around the block before doors.

Their set peaked four songs in on the dancefloor cut 'John Cooper Clarke'. Between songs the band kept crowd interaction close to zero, letting the room do the talking instead of the mic.

'Devout', released back in September, was the band's most recent single going into the show. Their own description of it: an intense, looming electronica that fades in, instrumentation escalating under Sargeant's synth-propelled vocal.

Third on the bill, they were treated like a headline draw, and stayed quiet throughout.