[gig] Kasabian, Brighton Dome, 16th May 2009

[tamaranth]

Executive Summary: YAY!!!

This was one of the most cheerful, bouncy and enjoyed gigs I've been to for ages -- a real sense of everyone getting into it and having a fabulous time. We were up in the circle, sitting down like old people (I don't have the stamina to stand up for three hours, let alone bounce around as I'd have liked) but had an excellent view. Tom Meighan has great presence, and rarer, elegance: I could watch him all night. Oh, wait ... Light show fab and not reliant on coloured spot + dry ice -- I liked the neon tubes and the geometry.

True, at one point (with behatted guitarist and jangly tambourine) they were channelling their inner folk band: but on the whole they sounded more rock, less trance, than on (particularly) the first album. Very together, too.


(grabbed from this here excellent write-up with vids -- there were a couple of songs I didn't recognise or couldn't place).
1. Vlad The Impaler [new]
2. Shoot The Runner
3. Reason is Treason
4. Cutt Off
5. Fire [new]
6. Processed Beats
7. Sun Rise/Light Flies
8. Where Did All The Love Go? [very new]
9. Me Plus One
10. I.D.
11. Underdog [new]
12. Empire
13. Fast Fuse [new]
14. The Doberman
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15. Club Foot
16. Stuntman
17. You Got The Love/L.S.F. (with trumpet, adds T!)

Luckily the new album -- out June 8th -- is on preorder.

More write-up of Grand Day Out in Brighton later.

Comments

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

Thank you for getting the tickets, I really enjoyed it :)

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

thank you for sharing fab day out! (And driving -- I'm sure that's why I'm not achy today, except in the ways I expected to be achy.)
Damn, meant to write up Loops notes too.