SXSW 2010: In The Court Of Let's Wrestle

London-based trio Let’s Wrestle plays a brand of off-key, shaggy-haired rock that could be grating if it weren’t packed so full of bright, catchy hooks. Though most of the crowd at Cedar Street Courtyard was noticeably older than barely-twenty-somethings Wesley Patrick Gonzalez, Mike Lightning and Darkus Bishop last night, they kept shouting “Let’s Fucking Wrestle!” over the shape-shifting riffs.

While frontman Gonzalez belted lyrics like “I’m so lazy, I’m so lazy, I’m so lazy I can’t fall asleep,” bassist Lightning used his mic to push his glasses back up onto his nose and looked noticeably like Ben Gibbard’s awkwardly charming mini-me. “We Are The Men You’ll Grow to Love Soon” is the title of one their most toe-tappingly bouncy numbers, and if the jamming crowd was any indication, it could definitely be true.