 there were two hours and twenty minutes of anticipation for Slow Club in Sheffield last Wednesday night. Just as we were beginning to get impatient, the infectious pop duo snuck out and treated us to a brilliant rendition of ‘Wild Blue Milk', performing it acoustically right in the middle of the crowd. It's when you see them without mics and amps that you can really hear how good their voices are. Unfortunately I lent my camera to an Amelia's intern for London Fashion Week, so you'll have to take my word for it that as well as being incredibly talented Rebecca was looking especially lovely, mesmerising the majority of the boys in the audience, including the one I was with (grr) and subsequently topping my mental list of girls I want to be. Next, they took to the stage for the infectively poppy ‘Giving Up On Love'. They have great chemistry, casually bouncing off each other and showing that Northerners do sarcasm best, introducing the rather sombre, ‘There's No Good Way To Say I'm Leaving' by saying dryly: "It's a party song Sheffield. Yeah, you should put this one on before you go out on a Friday night." The duo were notedly disappointed by the lacklustre reaction of the crowds at some points during their tour and were perhaps expecting more audience participation from their home crowd. This showed during the middle of their performance, but ‘Yeah, So', Slow Club's debut full length album has only been out since July, and it's always difficult to tour when fans haven't yet picked their favourites and learnt the words to all the songs. A highlight for me was when Rebecca sang part two of ‘All our Brilliant Friends' - a secret track on the album. It's a very sweet, sad song: "And you say baby you lied in your song/ and it takes all my courage not to sing along/ and now my beating heart belongs to my drums." It seemed fitting that she took to the stage alone, without Watson, to tug at our heart strings. The party didn't really start until ‘Lets Fall Back In Love', when they were joined by a gaggle of their friends, acting as Slow Club's biggest fans. The band gained confidence in their presence and this loosened up the crowd, which was definitely helpful when we were all rushed outside to the smoking area for the encore, ‘Christmas TV'. This was a truly superb way to end the night, with everyone singing along I felt like we were watching them jamming at a friend's late night BBQ. Standing on top of a bench to sing is something you can only get away with in a crowd of a few hundred people. I hope they don't get too used to small numbers because I'm pretty sure that by their next tour Slow Club's membership will have swelled significantly. All illustrations by Panther Club Slow Club are Charles and Rebecca from Sheffield, a