GIG REVIEW - 65daysofstatic at Indig02

A quick review this one.

I was lead to believe that there were two support bands. There were FOUR OF THEM. Four bands over two and a half hours? That's just something my brain can't really deal with. So, here's my summary of all four in one sentence:

Dark Captain Light Captain - Gentle, calming music but didn't really interest me much to be honest.
Pilgrim Fathers - Using weird noises that really amounted to nothing, and at one point the singer sounded like Kermit The Frog being strangled.
Gay For Johnny Depp - Utter shite musically but thoroughly entertaining nonetheless.
Errors - The potential is there for them to be good but I got distracted far too easily.

65daysofstatic came on at about 10pm and rocked the Small Dome for a good solid hour. One thing that was different from the last time I saw them do a full set (that will be at the Camden Electric Ballroom last November), was that there were loads more rave/dance elements added. These were mostly in the form of intros and outros, but they sounded absolutely amazing. The outro at the end of Radio Protector into A Failsafe is just the stuff of genius.

The setlist was mixed up a bit too. No encore but the set was filled with lots of songs from their debut album, The Fall Of Math. The fact that they opened with 'well-known' song Retreat! Retreat! caught me by surprise but it was one that was pleasant. Their second album, One Time For All Time, was represented reasonably well. Await Rescue is one of the best songs in the 65daysofstatic armoury due to its galloping pace. Once again though, the choice of tracks from their current album, The Destruction Of Small Ideas, was a bit poor. Only A Failsafe and Dance Parties really stood out, perhaps reflecting the fact that it really is the band's weakest album to date.

But, this band are amazing live. If you get a chance to see them in your local area, please do. You won't be disappointed by the loud, euphoric noises that these four men from Sheffield generate.

The setlist was:

Retreat! Retreat!
Await Rescue
Install A Beak In The Heart That Clucks Time In Arabic
Default This
These Things You Can't Unlearn
Primer
Fix The Sky A Little
65 Doesn't Understand You
Another Code Against The Gone
Dance Parties
Radio Protector
A Failsafe

Also, the sound at the IndigO2 venue was amazing. Far better than I had expected it to be, considering the rubbish sound issues in the main 02 Arena.

All the good pictures of the support bands can be found here on my Flickr account. No pictures of 65daysofstatic because of anal security but at least I got some photos before the idiot told me to put my camera away. Because obviously a compact Canon, which I disable flash for gigs anyway, is a major irritation for a band...yup.

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