Tag: Album Launch

385. IDLES: Leeds Beckett University [7.9.21]

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Artist: IDLES

Venue: Leeds Beckett University

Date: 7.9.21

Through a combination of missed opportunites or COVID cancellations, IDLES had evaded me as a live act up untl this point. But it was worth the wait.

Hot, sweaty and intense; the long overdue ‘Ultra Mono’ album launch gig was all I had hoped it would be. As a frontman, Joe Talbot is menacing and mesmerising in equal measure – he looks like he’d blow your house down and then give you a hug.

Setlist: Colossus / Grounds / Mr. Motivator / Mother / Anxiety / 1049 Gotho / Samaritans / Divide and Conquer / War / Reigns / Faith in the City / Television / Kill Them with Kindness / Love Song / Never Fight a Man with a Perm / Danke

358. Foals: Leeds Beckett University [24.10.19]

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358a_Foals [241019]Artist: Foals

Venue: Leeds Beckett University

Date: 24.10.19

Just five months after the launch gig for ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1’, here we were again for ‘Part 2’. Leeds Beckett SU was predictably packed for the earlier of another two album launch shows. As before, pre-ordering the album from Crash Records, Leeds resulted in a ticket to an exclusive gig.

The highlight had to be Yanis Philippakis on one of his trademark walkabouts; in this case running the length of the room and climbing the stairs to play guitar from the gantry, just a few feet from where I was standing.

The effort and energy to perform two shows in a single evening results in such gigs being fast and furious with no faffing around. Just the way it should be.

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338. Foals: O2 Academy, Leeds [23.5.19]

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338b_Foals [230519]Artist: Foals

Venue: O2 Academy, Leeds

Date: 23.5.19

For the previous decade, Foals had eluded me as a live act. Chances to see them play live seemed few and far between. However, the release of ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1’ brought them to O2 Academy, Leeds for an exclusive album launch show.

An incredible gig with the band playing the newly released album in full, along with a few old favourites and a preview of things to come. Bring on Part 2 . . .

Setlist: Moonlight / Exits / White Onions / In Degrees / Syrups / On the Luna / Cafe D’Athens / Surf, Pt.1 / Sunday / I’m Done with the World (& It’s Done with Me) // Mountain at My Gates / My Number / Black Bull / Inhaler

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