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The Whitest Boy Alive front man Erlend Øye is a happy soul tonight, making no effort to disguise the geeky grin he sports throughout his band’s 90-minute set. Back in the English north where he spent six months living in leafy Chorlton (being Manchester, Erlend still got attacked), Øye barely moves two feet all night, such as his comfort and calmness these days.

Fellow white boys Marcin (bass, cracking ‘80s perm hairdo), Daniel (keys, outstanding player) and Sebastian (drums, hidden from Clash’s view by a speaker stack) are consummate musicians, driving songs forward with minimalist precision and a whole lot of...