All things bright and beautiful on All Hallows' Eve
Isaac and Laurie never back down from a challenge and they sure delivered a monumental conclusion to their 2024 tour. Having spent the summer appearing at festivals like Glastonbury, Truck and Boomtown, you’d be forgiven for thinking they might take it easy towards the back end of the year. They certainly did the opposite, with a 13-show tour over the course of 16 days. O2 academy Brixton was their final stop, a theatre of pure mayhem, and when they both pranced onto the stage, Isaac painted fully red with horns and Laurie in a green and red Mohican and a fabulous ruff, it suddenly dawned on a lot of the crowd that it was indeed, Halloween. Halloween is there for horrors and thrills; ghosts and monsters and Soft Play (FKA Slaves) are a duo of two monstrously energetic humans.
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