The Manikees and Captain Backfire Rio’s Leeds 19th April 2008

Captain Backfire take to the stage and play a tight set with very little chatting between songs, except to dedicate each individually to their friend (and lead singer of Kinch) Chris who is in the audience. Looking relaxed and dancing slightly more then usual (this may have been because they were playing mainly to family and friends) they play all the usual numbers and new song ‘How Much It Hurts’, a video of which can be found bellow. As a warm up for Sundays Battle of the Bands Final this gig was sound and leaving the stage they seemed happy with the performance.
The Manikees then took to the stage and the crowed had still not increased. They played a solid upbeat set of inde-rock highlights of which included ‘Jenny’s Place’ and ‘She’s on the Dancefloor’. Their energy was outstanding considering the lack of audience and they just looked as if they were enjoying playing for themselves as much as for the crowed. I personally felt a little sorry for them, a good band that had traveled from Scotland to play to an empty room. Check out their myspace - www.myspace.com/themanikees.The sound engineer did a great job and the levels were spot on for both acts.

Captain Backfire – How Much It Hurts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfao-zm8gcQ