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Foals - Manchester



Bonjour tout le monde!

On the 4th of March, I went to see Foals at Gorilla (Manchester). ( Did I just travelled from Dublin just see them and that I didn't sleep for 48h? Well... yes...). Anyway. It was just insanely good, let me tell you that. It's good to have Foals back especially in those intimate shows. There was no support act and Foals came on stage at 8:30pm. It was such a small venue ( 400 capacity). There was no barrier and I was literally in front of the mic ( I couldn't believe it). Anyway, all of them came on stage.

You can see on the setlist that they started with a track from their new album. They sang 3 unreleased songs from their album "Everything not saved will be lost. Part. 1" at the time. As their music is indie/rock/punk you can imagine that Yannis (the lead singer) interacted with the crowd (stage diving during the rockie songs as well as walking throughout the crowd and going at the back with his guitar and literally jump in the crowd until he reach the stage). At one point, one of the fans aksed Yannis If he could stage diving in the crowd and Yannis replied by saying ' Of course, that's why we're here for'. He (Yannis) would literally stage diving and I would held his foot and/or his leg. At one point I was fearing for my life because he was behind us and I would fear that he would fell on us and that I would hit my head against the speaker(but thanks god It didn't happens). I've never really been to a gig where the singer would sky diving into the crowd but I loved it.  It was a pure joy to hear the good old songs(which bring back a lot of good memories) as well as the news. The whole experience was pure (good) madness. I saw them once and It was at Reading Festival so going to very this intimate venue was really something else, it was like the good old days for them.


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