Billy
Talent have been on the road touring their forth
studio album ‘Dead Silent’ in the
UK on the Rock Sound Riot Tour for the last two
weeks and tonight they brought the tour to an
end with a extremely energetic show at the Academy
in Bristol.
We arrived at the venue just before 9pm and had
a solid 3o minute wait until Billy Talent were
due to take to the stage, looking around I was
shocked at how empty the venue was especially
considering how Billy Talent are a pretty big
band who have not done a headline tour across
the UK for a good 3 or 4 years, but maybe with
tonight being the last show of the tour the fans
travelled to different venues and cities to see
Billy Talent earlier on the tour.
Time
quickly went by and Billy Talent took to the stage
opening up with their latest album ‘Dead
Silence’ openers ‘Lonely Road To Absolution’
which instantly ran into comeback single ‘Viking
Death March’ which sent the crowd bonkers
especially the people in the running around in
circles in a moment of pure mayhem.
The set that Billy Talent played featured 19 songs
and ran for nearly 1hour and 30minutes and was
like a massive greatest hits style show, with
hits like ‘Devil In a Midnight Mass’,
‘Line And Sinker’, ‘Rusted From
The Rain’ all being played early on in the
set.
Hallway
through the set Ben Kowalewicz started talking
about Movember and said “you may have noticed
that John and Aaron are supporting moustaches
this is not because they are paedophiles they
are supporting movember as we have lost so many
people to the horrible fucking disease”
before blasting into ‘Cure For The Enemy’
a song about the killer that is cancer.
The later part of the set is clearly the strongest
part with Billy Talent leaving the likes of ‘Try
Honesty’, ‘Devil On My Shoulder’,
‘Fallen Leaves, ‘Surprise Surprise’
and regular set closer ‘Red Flag’
to the end, Billy Talent have been away from the
live scene for a couple of years now whilst they
were working on their forth studio album but after
tonight’s show it feels like they were never
away as Ian still supports his crazy hair, Ben
still has a set of vocals you can’t help
but fall in love with and in general the band
are so tight sounding and full of energy which
leads me to one question why are Billy Talent
not up there with the dizzy heights of Green Day
and Blink 182 as they easily have the songs and
energetic live shows for arena shows but haven’t
managed to connect with a fan base of that scale
yet.
4/5
Review By Trigger
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