Photos by Bao NguyenJust when I figure no one can top opening act Matt & Kim's Kim Schifino when it comes to 100-proof enthusiasm behind a kit, I'm introduced to Lily Allen's drummer-- easily the most entertaining part of last night's "secret" MySpace gig at NYC's Bowery Ballroom. Allen didn't introduce her four-man band by name (or acknowledge them much, really), so a nickname will have to suffice. Candidates: Death Jazz (based on his shirt), King Hippo (based on his gape), or Bozzer (based on his general Brit-rock journeyman vibe). Let's go with Bozzer.Bozzer was playing to about 500 people, but nobody told him that. In his mind, Bozzer was playing to a sea of Union Jacks cascading through a sold-out Wembley crowd. He was like a pre-accident version of Def Leppard's Rick Allen, Tommy Lee sans rotating rig, a force. He raised and crossed sticks before coming down hard on the crashes, added hi-hat flourishes that were never meant to be there, and generally acted like a fucking star. Which was nice, since Lily Allen's stage persona is more post-star. Which is a nice way of saying she stuck with a tipsy wobble emphasized by PG striptease moves the entire night. Very "AbFab" prequel. She makes fun of her own songs, i.e., "this is the big one from the album I [dripping sarcasm] love so much" before playing "Smile", "this one's quite boring" before "Him". She even made fun of her own making-fun intros: "I hate how I'm introducing everything like 'this next song...' like it's fucking story time."In between these preludes, she sang songs, mostly from her new album, It's Not Me, It's You. Some of the new songs are less than mean, and Lily's still getting used to being a sympathetic figure-- she looked hesitant without insults to work for her on "I Could Say" and "Who'd Have Known". She seemed more excited about an encore cover of Britney Spears' "Womanizer" than any of her own compositions. Chalk it up to artistic distance. Because while there's a kinship-- Ms. Spears' hit is all about insulting dudes, after all-- Lily probably wouldn't admit to being duped in the first place.Lily Allenread more