Live Review: Gold Fields, KLP

After a two year hiatus, Gold Fields have returned in spectacular fashion and embarked on an Australian tour with good pal and recent collaborator KLP of triple j's House Party fame.

Following on from the release of their single together Make Me Feel, the reigning Queen Of Dance Music, along with the five piece BallaRat Pack descended upon Newtown Social Club and ensured things kicked off with a bang.

KLP, aka Kristy Lee Peters, broke out her dreamy cover of ZHU's Faded which proved to be a crowd pleaser, before launching into Talkin' Bout It, the electro-pop tune from Aussie producer Young Franco for which Peters lends her impressive vocals. Her phenomenal range and ethereal lilts came into the fore when she broke out her solo single Medicine, which had revelers singing along to “won’t you take a bit of my love” with closed eyes and slow sways.

KLP finished the set with Air, which will presumably be a track on an upcoming release. If the aloft arms and impassioned bopping of the Social Club crowd are anything to go by, it’s going to be a staple on the Australian dance scene pretty soon.

After a brief interlude, the lads of Gold Fields entered the stage to uproarious cheers, and promptly launched into Make Me Feel, alongside KLP, who intimately bound the space when she belted out “you make me feel like I’m out of my mind, you make me feel like I could fly.” As their SoundCloud account attests, Gold Fields have a penchant for remixes, and the crowd certainly wasn’t disappointed by their renditions of Tinashe’s Vulnerable and Empire Of The Sun’s Alive.

The night would have been incomplete without a couple of tunes from their debut album Black Sun, and lead singer Mark Fuller’s impassioned performance of Treehouse was a definite highlight of the night.