The quartet returned home to deliver tracks from their eagerly-awaited fourth album, "Suck It and See" and play to some long-lost live favourites. The Monkeys played to a packed 10,000 strong tent, borrowed from the near by Leeds festival site, with fans travelling from all over.
Their intro was a quick and no-nonsense start to proceedings, with "A View from the Afternoon", quickly followed by "Brianstorm." They mostly played homage to their first two albums, including the Yorkshire-clad 2Still Take You Home", about nights out on their home turf. The hometown show, perhaps, was always a best place to debut tracks from their new album, with the crowd singing along with every word, despite the fact that their album had been out for barely a week. "Don't Sit Down, 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair", "Library Pictures", "Brick by Brick, "The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala" and "She's Thunderstorms" being the new tracks.
Though the big moment of the show, was the live return of fan favourite, "Mardy Bum", played to Alex Turner's sole guitar and the bellowing crowd. "You've always been better than me at singing this", Turner revealed looking emotional and struck for words. The band are later joined on stage by support act, Miles Kane, for anthem "505", before ending on "A Certain Romance", with Turner forgetting the words only for the crowd to support.
They may not have gone for the same stage show they had on recent tours, but all Arctic Monkeys needed was a hometown show and a return of live favourites, to once again regain their tag as "Britain's most loved band."
Setlist:
A View from the Afternoon
Brianstorm
This House is a Circus
Still Take You Home
Don't Sit Down, 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair
Library Pictures
Teddy Picker
Crying Lightning
Brick by Brick
The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala
Cornerstone
Mardy Bum
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
She's Thunderstorms
Pretty Visitors
If You Were There, Beware
Do Me A Favour
That's Where You're Wrong
505
Encore:
When The Sun Goes Down
Fluorescent Adolescent
A Certain Romance
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Monday, 11 July 2011
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Seen It>> Vampire Weekend at Sheffield Academy - 29.11.2010
It’s been quite a year for Vampire Weekend. Their second album, Contra, went to number one in their native US, thus becoming just the second band on British independent label XL, to have a US number one. Now they are embarking on another sell out tour across the UK, their biggest one yet, which includes two nights at London’s Alexandra Palace.
As temperatures dropped below freezing in Sheffield, Vampire Weekend’s blend of summery, afro-pop tunes went some way to warming up the 02 Academy. Opener ‘Holiday’, with its spunky guitar work, and ‘Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa’ ironically told of sunshine and warmth, however the crowd still raved around like it was a warm summer’s afternoon.
Singer Ezra Koenig asked the crowd to join in with his “woahs” of ‘M79’ and also the chorus to ‘One (Blake’s Got a New Face)’, which they did with noise and joy. Meanwhile Koenig’s microphone spilled extra-terrestrial noises for the whole of ‘California English,’ rather ironically about girls dressing like summer in California, during freezing cold English weather.
Unsurprisingly, the biggest cheer of the night came for ‘A-Punk’, with the entire crowd bouncing around for the 2 minutes and vigorously chanting back the “eh ehs.” However, the majority of crowd where in loud voice throughout the show, chanting back the words to every song. The energy levels dropped down to the slow, sombre reggae beats of ‘Diplomat’s Son’, which brilliantly switched between paces throughout the song. While the lighting system followed the velocity, flashing around during the rapid guitars and eccentric drumming of Chris Tomson, during ‘Cousins’, whilst Koenig was given his own lighting when he sang his lyrics to the crowd, as if he was giving his own monologue. Bassist Chris Baio switched to a double bass, during ‘Taxi Cab,’ and multi-instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij regularly switched between guitars and keyboards throughout.
During the encore, Koenig asked fans to put the hands in the air “and wiggle your fingers around, like magic” during the quick and short ‘Mansard Roof.’ Koenig addressed the crowd that the band would be back soon “after the new album” and stated several times how they wanted to come back to Sheffield.
On a bitter cold winter’s night, Vampire Weekend are just what’s needed to bring back the warmth and sunshine of summer time. It’s not that long till summer, is it?
Setlist:
Holiday
White Sky
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
I Stand Corrected
M79
Bryn
California English
Cousins
Taxi Cab
Run
A-Punk
One (Blake’s Got A New Face)
Diplomat’s Son
Giving Up The Gun
Campus
Oxford Comma
Encore:
Horchata
Mansard Roof
Walcott
As temperatures dropped below freezing in Sheffield, Vampire Weekend’s blend of summery, afro-pop tunes went some way to warming up the 02 Academy. Opener ‘Holiday’, with its spunky guitar work, and ‘Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa’ ironically told of sunshine and warmth, however the crowd still raved around like it was a warm summer’s afternoon.
Singer Ezra Koenig asked the crowd to join in with his “woahs” of ‘M79’ and also the chorus to ‘One (Blake’s Got a New Face)’, which they did with noise and joy. Meanwhile Koenig’s microphone spilled extra-terrestrial noises for the whole of ‘California English,’ rather ironically about girls dressing like summer in California, during freezing cold English weather.
Unsurprisingly, the biggest cheer of the night came for ‘A-Punk’, with the entire crowd bouncing around for the 2 minutes and vigorously chanting back the “eh ehs.” However, the majority of crowd where in loud voice throughout the show, chanting back the words to every song. The energy levels dropped down to the slow, sombre reggae beats of ‘Diplomat’s Son’, which brilliantly switched between paces throughout the song. While the lighting system followed the velocity, flashing around during the rapid guitars and eccentric drumming of Chris Tomson, during ‘Cousins’, whilst Koenig was given his own lighting when he sang his lyrics to the crowd, as if he was giving his own monologue. Bassist Chris Baio switched to a double bass, during ‘Taxi Cab,’ and multi-instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij regularly switched between guitars and keyboards throughout.
During the encore, Koenig asked fans to put the hands in the air “and wiggle your fingers around, like magic” during the quick and short ‘Mansard Roof.’ Koenig addressed the crowd that the band would be back soon “after the new album” and stated several times how they wanted to come back to Sheffield.
On a bitter cold winter’s night, Vampire Weekend are just what’s needed to bring back the warmth and sunshine of summer time. It’s not that long till summer, is it?
Setlist:
Holiday
White Sky
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
I Stand Corrected
M79
Bryn
California English
Cousins
Taxi Cab
Run
A-Punk
One (Blake’s Got A New Face)
Diplomat’s Son
Giving Up The Gun
Campus
Oxford Comma
Encore:
Horchata
Mansard Roof
Walcott
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