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The Moodists were too dark, too anxious, too crooked for Countdown. Their songs are like detective stories where the black-clad win and the spies spend their lives in the cold. The show starts with Frankie's Negative and Machine Machine and things are really cool. Really hot, really cool. There's leather onstage and leather in the crowd. Dave Graney introduces songs with stories about seedy South Australia: suburban car envy, pederasts who prowl parks, the ramifications of an ASIO-sponsored identity revision… - Elizabeth McCarthy.