Yard Act review – a punk-funk workout for overthinkers

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Yard Act review – a punk-funk workout for overthinkers

UEA, NorwichTouring their exuberant second album, the Leeds band are embracing their dancier side as their barbed observational songs get ever more intimate“Norwich! We wanna consume you! Do you wanna consume us?” drawls singer James Smith with a grin on the first night of Yard Act’s latest UK tour. It’s a very Yard Act thing to do, drawing the audience’s attention to the transactional nature of gig-going; of band as product, of paying your mone…