Feeder
The new material, in particular Kite, Tallulah, and Guillotine come over really well besides the classic Feeder material High, Feeling A Moment, Just The Way I’m Feeling, Come Back Around, Just The Way I’m Feeling, Comfort In Sound and of course Buck Rogers.
Feeder are a band that I seen several times now during their career and they never disappoint on the live stage and tonight at the LCR is no exception as they are as in a fine a form as they have ever been, some ten album’s now in and they are sounding just great.
They look absolutely fabulous and are as an equal visually stunning with an ever changing back drop screen. Fresh from becoming Kerrang hall of fame inductees this year, both frontman Nicholas and bassist Taka Hirose look in great shape this evening.
It’s not quite sold out tonight, but the size of the crowd and the warmth from them kind of sums up the feeling that still remains for this band. The other thing that’s impressive is the mix of age groups in tonight’s audience, from circa eighteen years of age to people in their late sixties (I am rapidly heading more towards the latter!).
Early doors, I spotted two young men, probably about nineteen to twenty years of age totally engaged in every song, new and old and singing at the top of their voices and hanging on Grant Nicholas’s every word, they seemed to know every single lyric line, they were so totally engrossed during the two hour set.
I love these moments at gigs when you see people really enjoying themselves, but seeing those two young men enjoying themselves so much at a gig of a band that has been around since 1997’s debut album Polythene was such a positive distraction. Those two were definitely not born then, that’s for sure! Clearly they have had a great musical education?
The new album Tallulah is given a good airing tonight just as Nicholas said it would. “Tonight is all about new material, the new album. But we will be throwing in a few old favourites, don’t worry”. Well we didn’t worry and they really do not disappoint at all.
Yes there is lots of the new album aired tonight. But just how refreshing is it to have a band that has such an extensively cool and very impressive back catalogue to come out and have the balls to still deliver some of the new? It all works very well together and the Norwich crowd are lapping it up.
Grant Nicholas recalls playing in Norwich previously not only at the LCR and the waterfront but also at the Oval Rock House on Dereham Road (now a franchised chain pub) and at least two people in the crowd vocally acknowledge the latter venue with some whooping in approval at some kind of remembrance to those heady snake bite fuelled nights there and whilst I was a regular at the latter, sadly I didn’t get to see Feeder there!.
The new material, in particular Kite, Tallulah, and Guillotine come over really well besides the classic Feeder material High, Feeling A Moment, Just The Way I’m Feeling, Come Back Around, Just The Way I’m Feeling, Comfort In Sound and of course Buck Rogers.
I find myself looking round for those two young men, but they are long gone into the midst. They are somewhere in that rapidly evolving mosh pit that’s just broken out. It was fabulous to see the youth enjoying the gig tonight as much as some of us more mature gig goers were.
They are a very distinguished band and have indeed had a highly respectable career to boot, now with almost two million album sales behind them, including over half a million sales alone from their singles compilation album. Tonight they could’ve played any of their albums in their entirety and we would’ve had a good night.
There is so much love emanating for Feeder this evening and in a word or two, they are just bloody brilliant. Feel the love for we are still very much feeling the moment…..thank you.
