Kerrang! Magazine Review of the Borderline show

The healthy complexions and the total lack of rhythm displayed by the first 10 rows can mean only one thing: tonight, The Borderline is playing host to another 'Big In America' phenomenon.

Canada's Our Lady Peace have sold two million copies of their latest album 'Clumsy' stateside, so you can understand why those who have witnessed the band in huge arenas on the other side of the Atlanta are besides themselves with excitement, as the quartet amble onstage for their debut UK gig.

It's obvious why OLP are making big waves in the US. Earnest and epic, songs like 'Automatic Flowers' and 'The Birdman' are tailor-made for the vast expanses of America's Mid-West. The Canunks are masters of the strong-but-sensitive approach: huge built-for-stadiums choruses surge manfully from every verse complete with skyscraper melodies, mannered guitars and much emotional gnashing of teeth. It's difficult not to reach for the sick bucket as lighters are held aloft the crowd without a trace of irony. But then the cynicism always has been the enemy of fun...

Theres no denying the anthemic power of US breakthrough smash 'Clumsy', a hundred arms waving in the air as Maida sings 'I'll be waving my hand watching you drown', but OLP are pushing well worn-buttons. Their formulaic approach is made even more explicit during a cover of Jeff Buckley's 'Eternal Life', OLP's grunge ordinaire bombast plodding all over the original.

The bottom line is that Our Lady Peace do things that you've heard a million times before very, very well. Which is why they're massive, and destined to become even bigger. You'd better believe it. Resistance is futile.