 Got into the Wulfun Hall in Wolverhampton tonight,
Hassle free yet again but on a cold night, hoping
for Athlete to perform better than there rather
boring set they played at the Birmingham Arts
Festival this year.
Tape the Radio was the opening band tonight, making
there way onto the stage and playing there own
brand of indie music, with a good full sound for
a 3 piece band, with good catchy guitar riffs,
solid drumming and simple but solid bass playing.
The band seem tight, and good at what they do
but the overall product is pretty much standard
indie music. There last song, Save a life is much
quicker in pace than any other song in there set.The
vocals are good but lack range, to progress they
need todo things better to make them stand out,
but there on the right track, just need to take
there sound further.
 Main Support and also there last day on the Athlere
tour, was As Tall As Lions, this is also there
first time in Wolverhampton, there sound is Synth
Electro indie music, very atmospheric at times.
The singer only introduced themselves after the
4th song. They band were really feeling there
music as they showed emotion in what they were
playing, the bass player seemed like abit of a
poser, but played really well, the vocals were
really decent, there was alot going on in the
music, but no instrument got lost in the mix.
The entire band all 6 of them, seem to be extremely
competent musicians, near the end of there 5th
song was there trumpet riff from Move on up. The
only song i got the title of was from there final
song, Wait to Long, which was much shorter than
the other songs but was also there best and was
easy to see why it was there latest single.
After What seemed a short time, Athlete were underway,
opening with El Salvador, not a bad choice but
i think this song would have been suited to mid
set as it doesn't seem the sort to get the crowd
warmed up, this was followed by Hurricanes probably
a much better opening song as it has a really
good chorus that the crowd can sing along to and
they  did. One thing i noticed that i didn't think
happened was that Joel (vocalist) just sang some
of the songs and not played guitar as well. Before
Tourist, i think, he shook the hand of the little
boy that was inside the robot suit in that video,
which was nice.Other songs they played was Black
Swan Story, Superhuman Touch, a great song i might
add with a really decent chorus, 24 Hours, Wild
Wolves, Westside and The Getaway which was the
final song before the encore. They opened the
encore with and to great cheer, Rubiks Cube which
was followed by Wires, which im fairly sure most
of the crowd was singing along to at some point,
and they closed there set with Half Life. Leaving
the venue im sure people felt good leaving, it
was a feel good set, not bad at all.
Tape the Radio 3/5
As Tall As Lions 4/5
Athlete 5/5
Review By Robert Lawrence |
