Gig Review: HMLTD at Workman's Club, Dublin

It’s hard to work out whether London band HMLTD are a joke – or a pithy commentary on the moribund condition of modern rock.

Art-popsters with an emphasis firmly on "art", they took the stage for their first Dublin headline performance dressed like a charity shop Duran Duran – frontman Henry Spychalski in military hat, French guitarist "Duke" sporting matching black and red striped hair and dinner jacket.

But the group – forced to drop their original name of "Happy Meal Ltd" when the McDonald's legal department got in touch – are more than simply poseurs.