LINDEMANN

AESTHETIC PERFECTION/JADU

THE FORUM, LONDON

Germany’s patrons of the perverse get their audience into a flap

the ceiling of The Forum and they’re there, either side of the stage: Roman columns and giant eagles. The source of much controversy and rumour over the years, some say they’re evidence that the building was built in the 1930s for meetings by Oswald Mosely’s British Fascists. Some say Mussolini may have financed the friezes. Some say swastikas once lined the stage. It’s all nonsense, – the stage name of Berlin singer Jadula Laciny – plays what she calls “military dream pop’” the sound of Marlene Dietrich backed by an unlikely mix of Neue Deutsche Härte and trip hop. Dressed in a latex two-piece and ably backed by a Flying V-wielding guitarist who looks like he’s just about to clamber into the cockpit of a Messerschmitt, it’s a lively start to an evening that gets much, much livelier.