Feeder
Tonight the effervescent Feeder from Wales are in the fine city.
They arrive with a career that is now spanning a very impressive twenty five years and in this time they have also had some two million plus album sales since the release of 1997’s debut album Polythene. Put that alongside probably hundreds maybe a thousand plus gigs having been played across the globe, with two Kerrang awards thrown in for good measure for the best British band and also best live act.
Now that’s not a bad career CV this far in at all is it? It’s certainly one that most bands would kill for I am sure.
With seven gold and platinum records in the bag too, tonight we are seeing one of the most celebrated and most popular British rock bands from the past quarter of a century.
So after ten studio albums, Feeder are back with another best of compilation this time around in celebration of those remarkable twenty five years and they are still standing tall with just Grant Nicholas and Taka Hirose (both of whom look amazingly as fresh as daisies) remaining from the original line up.
Along the way in 1992 they also very sadly lost key band member and original drummer Jon Lee to a very tragic suicide. Sometimes when shit like that happens, bands split or they find a fresh energy from the darkness to continue. The album Comfort In Sound followed on from the aftermath and saw some of their finest ever songs produced from that particular period, out of the dark came new light.
It’s an extremely lively LCR this evening and they play a very impressive set from their quite amazing back catalogue to a very diverse age group of gig goer.
Although not quite a sell out this evening, it’s just nice and comfortable down there for this particular old man on the floor even when the expanding mosh pit gets lively and that’s just how I like it these days. Being able to absorb the music and atmosphere without getting battered about is just fine with me, although when one titanic of an individual jumped on my left foot, I did feel a bit tasty for a while!
When you are able to pick, with much difficulty we are informed by Nicholas from such an extensive library (now comprising of over seven hundred songs) you are rather spoilt for choice, but it sounds like they have rehearsed many songs to enable them to keep the tour fresh each night with the set list changing for every show and on night three of a nine date tour, it is certainly all sounding very ripe indeed.
Twenty one songs are played and when you can work your way through such tracks as Feeling A Moment, Pushing The Senses, Insomnia, Down To The River, Come Back Around, Silent Cry and of course probably their biggest tune ever, Buck Rogers then you must feel well happy with your career this far in I would’ve thought?
Couple that with my own personal favourites of Just The Way I’m Feeling and Yesterday Went Too Soon and that for me and many others sends us all home into the chilly evening with numbing ears and big happy smiles on our faces.
