By Chloe Yates
27/5/08, by Chloe Yates
First Feeder tour for eighteen months you say? It’s a preview album tour? At small intimate venues?! So when Kev texted me 3 words: Brighton, Road Trip? It took me all of ooooo 30 seconds to say hell yes!
I’d been fortunate enough to be invited to the March Album Listening Party at Echo HQ where we got to hear the album twice through and were asked our opinions – considering my reaction to most of it had been “will be awesome live” , news of a club sized tour had left me rather excited, to say the least. Having relocated from Nottingham to London such things as rent sadly now take financial priority, so I managed to restrict myself to only buying Brighton tickets, though I only managed to resist the lure of Bristol, (It’s a boat! And Feeder! And 300 people!), after my housemate hide my purse until it had sold out in record time. (Thanks Stace, I owe you cake!)
From getting to the Album Chart Show recording and also bumping into Mark at a couple of iMMa gigs (www.myspace.com/immarock, check ‘em out!) news had emerged that Live Feeder would now come with 100% extra Dean, with the addition of ‘CeeCee’ Dean Duvell on keyboards (usually seen with Spider Simpson www.myspace.com/spidersimpson) and that there would be “lots of new stuff” played on the tour. Then the realisation that Brighton was the day before Mark’s birthday led to a plan being formulated to take him a home-made birthday cake along with a card and little pressie. And what kind of cake is deserving of the Feeder drummer I hear you ask? Well one fashioned in the likeness of Animal from the Muppets of course! What better way to spend bank holiday Monday than by roping your housemates into painting marshmallows, sorting rainbow drops and all-in-all creating a baking masterpiece?
Day of the gig dawned with safely escorting Animal on a bus and two tubes to Wembley Park to be picked up by Kev. An hour later we found the way to the M25, following the “suburban route”, and Kev assuring me he did know the way to Brighton! We got down to Brighton just before 2pm, finding a convenient parking space right by the venue, where the crew were busy taking the equipment in. Kev met up with a mate of his at uni in Brighton, and I awaited the arrival of fellow FFSer and resident Brightonian Clare. While Kev & friend went for chips, Clare & I went to meet Italian FFSer Eli by the Pier and wait to hear from Candida of Feederweb to pass on Marks’ cake to her. In the meantime cue frantic texting from Andy who was struggling to find the venue and a parking place... “I’m in-between the piers!” so head east...... “Right... I’ll just get my compass out....”
Having agreed to delay the Shakeaway visit and wait for Andy at the Pier, we’re chatting by the traffic lights when... first Feeder spot of the day, Grant and Dean2 crossing the road behind us with shopping bags, and heading towards the venue. Candida then texts me to say she’s arrived if I want to give her the cake, so I start walking back towards the venue... only for 30 seconds later Clare to ring me saying “come back, come back now cos here is Mark and Dean!” I do a rapid about-turn back to The Pier and hand over a bag of cake & gifts to Mr Richardson, rather rudely interrupting him on the phone leaving a message for ex-Skunk band mate Ace (sorry!). I get a “Hi Chloe!” and a hug before showing him the cake and saying Happy Birthday for the following day. “That’s awesome, thank you!” before showing it to Dean “look at this!” - prompting an enthusiastic response from Mr Tidey “Cake??! Oo! We were just saying we need some cake!” (Sees it’s of Animal) “Ahh cool!” He then apologises for being on his phone “but I’ve been trying to send this text for 30 minutes” (Mark – how rude!) before Mark looks at me and suddenly says “but... what shall I do about your Tupperware?!” Thankfully I’d already given this some thought, “Give it to Erika and she can pass it on to me at the iMMa gig next month!” (Seriously: www.myspace.com/immarock, fab music!). “Ahh of course! Ok!” There’s a few more minutes chat, with Dean suddenly spotting Eli and asking “but, have you come all the way from Italy just to see Feeder?”, before Big Pete & Nance creep up behind me, dig me in the ribs and say Hi. And then Andy pops up as well. Conversation with Mark and Dean includes the tour so far, tattoos and Dean putting me on the spot asking how many times I’d seen Feeder. (Off the top of my head at the time was “10 or 12”, recent count-up including Brighton reveals it’s actually 14). Then, just to complete seeing the quintuplet; Taka pops up, complaining to Dean “I’ve been trying to ring you!” with Dean protesting “well I’ve been trying to text you for half an hour!” Taka is looking 10 years younger with his natural dark hair, though I’m not too sure about the ginger splodges! He then presents Mark with a carrier bag, presumably containing his birthday gift – a Toilet Golf set, much to Mark’s delight! At the time I didn’t really want to know what Toilet Golf consisted of but have since been informed it’s a game designed to improve the users’ putting skills while they have a poo... lovely. The mind boggles – did Taka know in advance he wanted to give Mark this and specifically seek it out in Brighton shops, or was he just browsing, spotted it, and thought immediately of his drumming band mate? I’m not certain which of those options concerns me more!
Anyway, the boys then make their apologies and head off back to the venue for some interviews, Andy goes off to park his car at the venue and the rest of us head towards the shops, Eli, Clare & I finally hitting Shakeaway and directing Pete & Nance to Bravissimo. After some shopping we go rescue Andy from a hungry seagull “I’m by a subway!” “Which one of the 4 would that be??” before meeting Kev back at The Concorde at half5 to join the queue of about 15 people and saying ‘Hello’ to Feeder gig regulars Marcus, Bex, Darren and Mr B. Kev & Andy then went off to the chippy, and then Dean, Mark with a few other peeps came out of the venue and walked past, Mark giving me a nod when he saw me, and then maybe cos he spotted the iMMa t-shirt, giving me double rock horns in salute. When Kev & Andy finally arrive back with chips, I ask Kev “did you see the boys? They just walked past that way”, Kev: “No... huh, no fair”, Andy : “yes we did... they asked where the chippy was!” Kev: “THAT WAS MARK & DEAN?! Ahh no!” bless ya Kev, next time dude!
Finally, it was time to get into the venue, and we positioned ourselves Taka side, at the barrier. First time to Brighton Concorde and oh my, awesome tiny character filled venue – love it, I’ll definitely go back. Support act were Your Army (http://www.myspace.com/yourarmy) and they were pretty good, female fronted and rocky, I’ll keep an eye out for more things from them, Grant & Mark stage-side seemed to be enjoying them as well. Then the stage gets properly set up for our boys – Mark’s drum kit sporting the funky Silent Cry flying bird on his bass, and a little bundle of Animals are to be seen sat by the side – good to see them back.
18 months on, the boys appear to rapturous applause, no dilly-dallying around, its straight into Feeling A Moment and then Shatter. Feels to me like they’ve never been away, but oddly not many of the crowd seem to be jumping around – I feel a bit self-conscious like I’m the only one moshing, fortunately that doesn’t last long! Grant says hi and it’s good to be back, commenting on playing a proper “punk-rock” venue, before they launch into lead single We Are The People. Wow – what can I say except epic live! From that it’s into Miss You – which as much as I’m quickly loving WATP live, Miss You for me is that level up – rocking brilliant Feeder at their very best. CBA is next; resulting in my usual manic air-drumming (has to be done) and we then get another newie, possibly my fave so far in Itsumo (Japanese for ‘always’). As awesome live as I suspected it would be, but with numerous people all singing along – prompting Grant to ask “who’s illegally downloaded the album then?!” cue numerous hands in the centre going up, Grant saying “the power of the internet eh?” and looking distinctly unimpressed. Bloke central then shouts out “but if will buy it!” prompting a laugh and Grant checking that we all would indeed buy it... Numerous calls for other new tacks, predominately 8.18, before someone shouts out “Tracing Lines” – Grant asks if they’ve seen the set-list because the next track was indeed this little beauty – second single anyone? Wouldn’t surprise me in the least (if that’s right, you heard it here first folks!). We then get a few shouts for Emily and Sweet 16 – and Grant banter wise is in good form. Usually the shouts for the older stuff are met with no reaction, but not tonight... “Christ, how does that go? I don’t remember how it goes!” as he stands with his guitar trying out chords to remember it – we even get a bit of the intro of Sweet 16 and Polythene Girl – Grant mate, please please hang onto that spark and go rehearse them!
Next it’s straight into another new track, Guided By A Voice, which sounded awesome, and then one of my all-time favourites in Just The Way I’m Feeling - following which Grant takes the opportunity to introduce new Dean (or CeeCee) to us. By this point it’s getting hotter and hotter and hotter in the venue and a few lads in the middle start asking Grant to turn his fan round – and Taka duly obliges. Mark, spotting me at the front and giving me a grin and a nod, can see a few of us are suffering, so says something to bass tech Punky who promptly chucks me 2 bottles of water to pass round – cheers! Pushing The Senses is up next, and after a slow start the crowd are well into things now, and new track Sonorous goes down a treat. This is one that for me at the listening sounded a bit odd and disjointed but live is just brilliant, slow parts before completely rocking out.
Grant then says it’s time for “something from our first album, we’ve pulled this one out of the closet”. Idly thinking back to 2005 winter tour and that maybe this means Shade, or Cement I can barely believe it when he introduces My Perfect Day. Just wow, cannot describe how chuffed I was to hear this; I know it’s one of Mark’s favourites of the older stuff and it did not disappoint – even going a bit Descend-epic in the middle. Part of me suspects they’ve got this one out in preparation for Reading/Leeds with being on before Slipknot, but whatever the reasoning I hope it sticks around for the October tour. New track number 7 on the night is Fires – another that wasn’t so instant for me at the listening but comes into its own live – bit of a fest classic in the making I think.
If I thought MPD was going to be the best surprise of the night, I was wrong. Introduced as “something from the second album” Grant then made my year by going into Yesterday Went Too Soon. This was probably the point of the night where I looked most like a crazed loon – but I don’t care, been waiting for so long for this to make a comeback, being frustrated at its appearance on set-lists in the recent past without it actually being played (Redbourn, Coronet, Roundhouse). It was even more glorious than I ever hoped it could be – again, please Grant, keep it in! Last track before the encore was Lost & Found – Grant throwing us all completely by beginning it by singing Foo Fighters All My Life – nice touch!
Coming back on for the encore, Taka, the legend, brought over a pack of 20 or so bottles of water which Mr B proceeded to pass back to the suffering masses – perfect timing to wave one in the air along to High. Grant came and stood on the speakers’ right in front of us to conduct us in singing the last chorus – earning us the only “Bewdiful” of the evening. Lovely moment, but sadly then, we had come to the last track. It was, as ever, Just A Day, with doo doo doo’s ringing out from us all. Nutty crowd, by now sweating profusely, moshed as hard as ever to this – and at the end first Grant and then Taka came and shook hands with us at front right.
And that was it – couldn’t take the grin off my face, 7 new tracks all of which sounded awesome, 2 classics that I never thought I’d hear live, for once no Buck Rogers (keep it for the fests), smallest venue I’m ever likely to see them in (apart from shop in-stores) and a band playing like they’ve never been away and obviously loving every minute of it! Hot, Sweaty and Aching – but it’s always worth it. Time to say hi and bye to familiar faces, envy those who still have a couple of gigs left and start to count the days to an October tour – rumoured to be academy sized venues and lots of them. Trust me – you will want a ticket to these dates, and Silent Cry –can’t wait to own it, Feeder are back with a vengeance – time to enjoy it!
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'Tracing Lines' release date has been moved from 11th August to 25th August. More to wait! :(
A good thing is that you can download 'Somewhere to Call Your Own' by digital download.
I wonder if the next single will come out on a physical copy as well as a digital one...I hope it does...
New single is on the Feederweb:
http://www.feederweb.com/releases.php
What the f. The Forum just went down.
oh go on stace, listen to it on the bus... just don't sit next to me while you're doing so!
That is possibly my favourite review...of anything...ever.
I'm never gonna be able to listen to Miss You without laughing away to myself ever again. Maybe i should avoid listening to it on the bus then...hmmmn.
and FFS does it again, brilliant review
(and thank god, someone else agrees that Songs From The Crypt was a much better title idea!)
I'm curious for that review too... I hope FFS will write a good one.
Will we be seeing a Silent Cry review soon?
Nice banner ;D
You're forgiven xD
Feeder! Feeder! Feeder! Feeeeeeeder!
sorry guys, mad moment :P
Bloody hell, I hate it when a decent album like Feeder's doesn't get well known. I guess give it another month or two, it will probably get more popularity when an advert pops on TV or something.
Agree... Feeder need to come to Australia. If small little indie artists can make it over here, why can't feeder?!
What happened to the lyrics page? Is it being updated?
I love Feeder's new album :]
what i hate is that i live in Australia and they havent toured here since 2000 i think its time for another visit its been so long and its time to come back around again.
what marcus said its so true...plus they deserve more then what they got now but hey at least there selling records and got a good fan-base too
thanks Rach :)
Yeah Suey, it really annoys me, EVERY TIME Coldplay put out an album there's this big media fanfare, but when it's Feeder it's all hush-hush in comparison :-(.
Nothings funny about a mean review when it's band you like. Why is it when Feeder get bad reviews the writer really, REALLY rips into them?!, it don't happen to other bands. Pathetic and childish, that's what it is.
er... yes. Leo's post was so good he had to post it twice.
Chloe, I love yer tour diaries. Ace reading!
I just listened to the album for the first time there now and i blew off a load in my underpants
I just listened to the album for the first time there now and i blew off a load in my underpants
Feeder photos from Proud Galleries online now at ThrashHits.com
cheers
Raz
it´s a good record, but since Jon Lee was gone, the band has lost the typical "feeder-sound". YESTERDAY WENT TO SOON" is the best record...cheers from germany.
got the Deluxe version and have been listening to it ever since monday! Great album :)
just bought We are the People off iTunes. i love these guys =)
I've just got the new CD, oh... it's marvellous!
It's so great to hold a new Feeder record in my hands! These are the beautiful moments of life! Cheers!
*shouts* :D
I like this album, lots!
Silent Cry in my hands baby! The three years were worth the wait.
Got my deluxe version through the door today :D
Must say though, the bonus tracks aren't really anything special...oh well, so happy to have the CD in my hands.
Whats with the xmas decorations at the top of the page? ;)
ooooo its all pretty! ta for putting my diary up dude :)
Ooo a new look...very swish!
Love the new look! Looking forward to the reviews...
DJ Rodney Bingenheimer on KROQ in Los Angeles played "Into the Blue" on his show. That was pretty cool to hear.
calling out for days is quality! haven't heard the other bside though cos my parents record player is bust :(
Miss You was on Euro 2008 yesterday. There must be a Feeder fan at the BBC!
summer of sport coming up though, euros, olympics and wimbledon.. bound to be some feeder music in the background there ;)
Thats a shame, cheers Nance
Not sure there will be a TV ad. The Singles had one because of the EMI collaboration...
Yeeeehhhh.
We're back on
I meant TV advertising, It's just that I am sick of seeing the ad for the new Coldplay album,
How awesome was Bristol! Who's The Enemy, MPD, YWTS, Insomnia, High, All My Life crowd takeover (!) and a chance to see the guys outside before/after the gig. My best Feeder gig so far :)
sue - what sort of advertising do you mean? street teaming has officially started, brighton seemed to be covered in silent cry posters already...
Any ffs'sers that have myspace feel free to add me - www.myspace.com/staceywatkins - :o)
I don't think there's been a "fire". I reckon Pro Boards haven't paid their credit card bills and have had all their servers repossessed.
When are we going to see some advertising for the new single or album.
Hell yeah, I dont start my new job till the 23rd I'm there :D
If anyone's bored, I just put the recent Kerrang interview with Grant on the Scrapbook :) Well it will kill five minutes anyway...
Hello Fellow Shout Boxers!
A Hate crime? lol
been trying to work out the time-scale from the proboards support forum but most of it is greek to me! sounds like ffs server (20) is one of the worst hit - they have all the data but no power or something (so we won't have lost any posts, though once the forum is back we might have some missing temporaily). from what i can make out they will have power for our server back either tonight or tomorrow night (doesn't help its all in american time :p)
i got that info from here: http://support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=networkdiscussion&action=display&thread=245186
if anyone can figure it out more clearly please do!
So glad they did a small london gig! got 2 tickets! WOOO! is the FFS "Fire" not put out yet?
maybe ffs doesn't actually exist and we all dream it!
"this product is out of stock" - camden gig sold out it seems.
I love the way FFS has put the words fire and hosting facilitiy in quotation marks... like it's fake or something ;)
check the email... it says something about must be in the venue for 9 :D
Bought 2 tickets for the Galleries, but it'd be nice to know what time I need to be there!
Hmmmn i'm probably gonna be in Leeds....not that i have the money anyway, even itf it is cheap. Oh well.
Glad people like the announcement ... sounds like a good little gig! :-) We'll already be on the Isle of Wight at the time :-(
well done , Chloe , have a great time . By the way i was in Camden earlier on this year with my hubby , i enjoyed it muchly .
i know some of the people in the London area were a bit disappointed with the recent mini tour venues , so hope this makes it up a little bit for you ( you lucky Londoners ) good luck everyone , hope you get tickets . Also the producing of receipt and i.d should stop people buying them just to sell on e-bay .
2 tickets bought - woop woop! perfect way to dispell the post feeder gig blues. just remind me not to look at my bank statement when it arrives....! who else is there? drinks in camden first??
Special annoucement from feederweb!!!
http://www.feederweb.com/microsites/Feeder/news.html
you ffs londeners grab em'! 6 quid!! feeder!!! its just crazy, enjoy :P
fweb 5pm announcement, mini gig @ camden proud galleries next week, £6. 400 tickets, see fweb for link...
Enter to win tickets to see Feeder at iTunes Live in July; http://www.ituneslive.co.uk/feeder/ (iTunes account required)
hehe that'd impress mr nicholas wouldn't it? ;)
You should go out under the cover of darkness and stickerize every lamp post in Crouch End ;)
what, clangers? where???
chloe is back from oxfam crouch end which now has a little pile of silent cry stickers :D i also attempted to stealth sticker some lamp-posts but this was thwarted slightly by 2 pcso's following me down the street....! oops!
It is a fantastic surname....it'd be even more fantastic if it was Clanger :D
I love that the founder of ProBoards is called Patrick Clinger. What a fantastic surname. :D
Loved the green room, i like the fact Mark fluttered his eyelashes when Gabriella's question was something like what music star would you date hehe cheeky! im glad they sung WATP, really love WATP live!
Also on a serious note i just thought i've give out some useful info i've found out, im on another board powered by proboards and because i joined in the recent month, i'm part of the missing data which means i can't login as i joined recently, so when the forum is up and running i was told by chole the last months posts will be back within a few days after SO...If you've joined within the last month and you can't login and you're using exactly the same password, don't make a new account, wait a few days until posts and members are updated to the system and everything should be back to normal, pain in the bum i know but it saves confusion!! :o)
- Stacey
Still no proboards? I think it's just some evil plot to give me no option but to actually do some work....grrrrrrr.
Oooo a butterfly...
just want to say , i'm loving Itsumo , 1 week to go for the single , looking forward to quality 'b' side and counting the days for the album , can't wait !!
i thought the green room was a repeat from when they sang Miss You . When i just happened to turn the telly on to ch 4 they were singing watp . Will catch the repeat purely for Takas dancing !!
hehe sorry Rach ;)
Green Room will be repeated on saturday for those who missed it - some of it is online but theres a couple of class moments that aren't. (seriously, watch it for the Taka dancing...)
Brighton diary - was emailed to Mr MW on thursday so provided i sent it to right email address (!) it'll be up whenever he has time to.
on that note i'm off to my Oxfam shift, armed with Silent Cry stickers :D
Feeder were in the Nokia Green Room again yesterday, singing WATP, I missed it, but its on line, their server is working
Oh dear, Chlo. You just can't help yourself can you?? ;)
Didn't see the Green Room yesterday, have recoreded it though. Sounds v. interesting!
When's Chloe's Brighton tour diary gonna be up on here then? I keep looking for it but it's never here!
'who's the enemy'? guess that would be the proboards techies? , hopefully this won't be a 'silent cry' and they will be 'guided by a voice' to fix it. cos, ffs, we 'miss you'!
(sorry, i'll shut up now and go do something more productive...)
Someone put the 'Fires' out please cuz 'We Are The People' who are unable to access the board! :D
mornin' rach!
did you see greem room yesterday? Taka scooter dancing...... genius!
Yeah, Feeder obviously tempted fate with that song title!
Me wants FFS boards back now, please. :(
theres a joke in there somewhere about track 6 ;)
Least the Fire wasn't on the Boat!
acording to the proboards update page
http://support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=status&action=display&thread=244766&page=2
only 2 servers left to get up and running.... sods law ffs is on one of them eh?
while we wait, who wants a cuppa?!!
hope the fire gets put out soon , was eager to hear how the gig on the boat went , maybe tomorrow then , goodnight .
Awww, i miss the forum, hope to speak to everyone soon :o)
Wow, totally loving the Gay Parsnips!
proboards hq in the usa has had some issues with a fire, hence most of their servers are down and they're in the process of repairing/changing them all over. FFS will apparently be back up and running later this evening.
was trying last night but couldn't get on message board either
I can't get past this page. aaaaaarrgh
stevo - spot on about last night! and mpd in a punkrock club - perfect setting. roll on october tour, i already need another feeder fix!
Got lucky enough to get some tickets for the Festivals warm up gig at Brighton...Damn...I know Feeder are good but this was stunning...small sweaty club, a proper Indy Rock band on full power....As Grant said himself...'this is punk rock'... Energy was amazing, Band was amazing, The new stuff sounds great...deserves to be No 1(although there will probably be some manufactured junk that keeps the top spot hogged as usual....dont want real music frightening the populace now do we...). Cant wait for the autumn gigs...Howza about everyone buys the new CD on release on the 16th so it gets the recognition this band deserve...And how is it possible to look that good at 40...Bastard!!! Taka...cool as ever, Mark...like you've always belonged...Long live feeder, good on ya guys. Cheers.
Yep they've played and toured over in Australia before, mainly during YWTS era though.
Has Feeder ever been to Australia? All they ever do is tour the UK.
They're quite big here, so wonder why they never make it over?
Even bloody Malcolm Middleton made it to Brisbane a couple of months ago, so I'm sure Feeder/Echo can afford it!
Great new video - liked the changing faces effect, but were the steps the same as the Tumble And Fall video?
vid for WATP is up on kerrang folks...
http://www2.kerrang.com/2008/05/exclusive_watch_feeders_new_vi.html
loving marks bike cameo
It was much better back then. You waited for a record in excitement and on the day it was released you listened to it with every fan at the same time. This magic is gone.
Anyway I'm looking forward of holding the new album in my hands on 16th June. I hope it will get some nice reviews.
Cheers!
:)
where are you hearing it from!?!
i'd love to wait but suspense is too much of a killer!!:P
Just to let you know the last two posts from "Stephen" is a from a different Stephen than myself who posts on the FFS proboards :P
Pre-ordered album and singles as usual but couldnt wai to hear the songs before the gig in May, downloaded and was no dissapointed!! BUY THIS ALBUM !!
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time for fan power once more guys, lets flex our muscles and remind them why we're the best group of fans around, we did it for Shatter, now add your voice to the campaign to get a physical Tracing Lines/Silent Cry release AND a new track!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/feeder/