There are moments in life where you have to breathe a bit. Some will read the newspaper over coffee, others take long walks, bike or go into exile. What I like is the concerts. It costs more, it rarely provides the date, but it is always good. I feel things I feel at any other time in my life. And that's still pretty darn important.
Room: The Olympic (Nantes)
Duration of show: 1:25
Date: Wednesday, January 19
Part One: Is Tropical
In a word: Life
Reminder? Two songs.
This concert for me was a bit peculiar. It is always my first concert since March 2007, I lived my first concert in front of a set of Klaxons. The atmosphere of madness had pushed Jamie promise "I promise we'll come back here ... I promise." I had not forgotten. And finally, no, there was only one date at La Cigale. A little disappointed, I take my keyboard, I publish a short note stating my disappointment, and I send them a mail. I never got an answer, but a few months later, a concert Nantes unfolds. Meanwhile, I heartily down their second album, but whatever, I take my place, not nearly a contradiction!
few months later, here I am again at the Olympic. I scan the faces around: Most boys, older audience than last time, I feel at ease in this room. I greet the head of the faces used and the first part comes a little late.
Is Tropical is a group that I discovered a few months ago, signed to Kitsuné. Without being revolutionary, their sound nice and catchy to me immediately liked. On stage, the case is different. If the studio can sound their joyful songs and almost hedonistic, live the English fellows donned beards and suddenly sounding as 'tropical' as The Cure. Hence the influence of vision on what we listen. Their songs we used to feel warm and are gradually conquer our hearts. It must be said that these youngsters are doing no evil, for their looks in the end to focus on music that is played on a square it, but precise. They arrive in the dark mix guitars with synth side of dancing, and it works. Far from being transcendent, this live is enough to be very pleasant. You can see them play here .
During the intermission, we have fun as we can with what we can. The small tower at the merchandising booth informed me that I would perhaps save 15 € to pay me a t-shirts that tear, but never mind, I paid back on a beer with a few cups recorded, and amuse myself somehow with my necklace LCD (the cons). And then when we having a good time to tell bullshit, the lights go out. Begins excellent Atlantis to Interzone , from their first album. Immediately, the children jump, tight against each other. The atmosphere of madness starts over again with Flashover , the best song from their latest album. The band alternated songs and the first and second album brilliantly, allowing also to keep a crazy mood throughout the set while the more recent songs won less affection. This is indeed a feat that takes the group in concert: they manage to erase the differences (what am I saying? The abyss ) separating their first of their second album to better maintain the climax when live.
S'enchaînent so in a complete mess: Two Receivers / magick / Golden Skans / As Above, So Below / Gravity's Rainbow / It's Not Over Yet (for first) and the entire second with the exception of Extra Astronomical (yes, they had the gratitude we save).
Note: the beginning of the concert Atlantis To Interzone - Flashover , unstoppable, the concatenation magic (this is the case to say) Two Receivers - Magick and Recall Surfing The Void - It's Not Over Yet .
And then, I still feel like you are hiding something. Because okay, I slammed on Golden Skans , but it's no surprise, then who cares? even if it was one of the nicest slams in my life.
No, but The Olympic 2010/2011 season has finally breaks free and has offered an internship invasion. Far from that known at the concert by Black Lips ( yet we remember), it has the merit of being memorable because I still spent a good minute trying to join the dozen fans on stage . What I eventually succeed but that is not the issue.
All this to say: STAGE INVASION , guys. The Klaxons have managed the impossible: a stage invasion in 2011, yeah. For this reason they are sacred heroes month of January. (Because is not messing around, either.)
The Klaxons have managed to convince me that a bad album can turn into excellent concert, and just for that I congratulate them. The concert was stirred can no longer alive, the musicians were really given, and this concert is a worthy legacy of their passage four years ago.
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