This aside the support band tonight were The Chemists who played along side a large florescent sign stage right. This however was the only thing for me that glowed about them. Whilst they had an obviously confident attitude and few catchy riffs, they were for the most part a pretty bog standard sounding indie band, the likes of which pollute the British music scene only slightly less then the manufactured company controlled pop rubbish you hear everywhere. All of the songs sounded the same and blurred into one noise, and the stage performance left me watching the screens behind the bar showing upcoming gigs. The sound, whilst it was never going to be as good as then main act, was loud and had constant fuzz through out the set. I admit there is nothing the band could have done about this but I don’t think it took much away from the songs.
Feeder then took to the stage to reputes applauses and all thoughts of the support act were gone. The band were tight and defiantly on top form. I have to admit that this is the first time I’ve really listened to Feeder for a few years and this show made me wonder why. The new songs sounded strong and seemed to get a good if a little mute response from the crowd, but energy levels on the stage never dropped. The sound was sharp and clear with excellent tone and tuning on both the instruments and the vocals. They played an acoustic song from the new album, the name of which escapes me, that I could see becoming a very cool sing-along number in future sets. The real winners were the songs from ‘Echo Park’. These were the songs that everyone sang and the majority of the crowd danced to ‘Buck Rodgers’ was sung so loud by the crowd Grant needn’t have bothered, ‘We Can’t Rewind’ went down in a very similar manor. Despite, or possibly because of, the band having been booed earlier when it was joked, ‘We’re not playing that one tonight, you have to move on sometime you know.’ The second encore and final song was the one everyone knows, ‘Just A Day’. The crowd sang so loud you could probably here them in Morisons across the road, and what had been a rather ‘tidy’ pit at the front of the stage erupted right to the very back of the room, even beyond the sound desk.The set ended the band seemed to be on a high and the crowd most defiantly were. A great night. If you like this type of music, or are a fan that has never seem them play, Go!
