★★☆☆☆Jax Jones took no chances with his audience’s fickle attention span at this packed Bristol show, subjecting the youthful crowd to a relentless barrage of booming beats, dazzling lights, blazing video screens, belching steam cannons and fluttering confetti blizzards. Much like the 32-year-old’s music, this live performance was pure button-pushing commercial product, as subtle as a sledgehammer, but just as ruthlessly effective. An increasingly visible chart presence since the release of his hit-packed debut album, Snacks (Supersize), last September, Jones is the oddly bland stage alias of the producer and multi-instrumentalist Timucin Fabian Kwong Wah Aluo, a Londoner with Turkish, Malaysian, Chinese and Nigerian heritage. On paper he could be an inspirational poster boy for multicultural Britain, although his music typically sticks within a

Source: The Times March 09, 2020 17:03 UTC