Foals.
O2 Academy Brixton, London.
Friday 12th November 2010.
Plus support: Pulled Apart by Horses & Crystal Fighters.
Tonight, the last show of Foals’ sizeable UK tour – the night of which, most reasonably new bands suffer immense exhaustion. However this is not the case for tonight’s headliners. They burst onto the stage into a sea of blue ambient lighting & dry ice, opening with the first track on their latest album, and latest single ‘Blue Blood’.
The setlist of tonight was capable of containing many great tracks from Total Life Forever such as; ‘Miami’, ‘Spanish Sahara’, and the album’s title track. The crowd were also treated to an assortment of songs from debut album; Antidotes just a couple being: ‘Balloons’, and fan favourite ‘Cassius’. Each addition building up the electric atmosphere of which would be expected in a much smaller venue, but not so much at this 5,000 capacity arena.
Nevertheless it wouldn’t have been a Foals show without Lead singer Yannis Philippakis’ quite frankly, foolish antics. Which many may see as over confidence, yet are essentially just additions to the bands incredible showmanship. What with climbing onto amplifiers and jumping into the fanatic crowd, during ‘Electric Bloom’. Yet, the highlight of the night had to be the encore which contained both, ‘Hummer’ and ‘Two Steps Twice’, Leaving the crowd poured out in to the November rain, with an air of fulfilment after tonight’s fantastic show. On selling out London’s Brixton Academy, Foals are a band that truly deserve the success that they receive in the near future, and are an absolutely fantastic live band.
Jonathan Hatchman.
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