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Glass Animals

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Magnet, Liverpool October 10th

It was Glass Animal’s first day back in the UK in ages, having been on tour in the US. Their first stop was Liverpool’s basement venue Magnet. It’s been a while since I’ve been in there and long gone is the smell and dank surroundings and now it’s gloriously clean and kitch, it felt somehow a perfect venue for the shimmering sounds of Oxford’s Glass Animals.

One of the most incredible things about seeing this band live is to hear how smooth their live sound is. Lead singer Dave Bayley has such a striking sound to hear live and he manages to do it breathlessly despite his dancing. Now the dancing is something that requires a whole load of words throwing at it – where to begin. For such a small skinny white man this guy seems to have taken some kind of soul injection for he moves his hips and jiggles around. He has such smooth moves he just lets go with abandon and it’s so infectious. In contrast to this and just behind him is bassist Edmund Irwin-Singer. Edmund  bops up and down in an entirely more jangly method. He cut a Pichocchio-esque statue as he jangled about as though on strings. Their clashing dance moves represent so well their fabulous concoction of hiphop, R’n’B and good old fashioned indie guitar music. It was lovely to watch the contrast and this was quite clearly a band who weren’t just going through the motions, they seemed genuinely thrilled to be playing back on home soil.

Despite the band doing everything they could, and should, there were still times where some parts of this crowd seemed to forget that they’d paid to come to see a band and stood around me chattering and laughing before suddenly snapping to attention for the occasional song they knew like Gooey or Hazey. There were other people who forgot that the band were even in the room and danced around in a circle like the album was on playback. They can be forgiven for this such was the reproduction of the tracks live. It is difficult to keep the attention of people when parts of your songs dip in and out of volume but it did irk me at times to hear a constant chitter chatter above the glorious sounds. Perhaps I should have just thrown myself down the front anyway and really get involved rather than lurking at the back people and band watching. If you get a chance to go and see Glass Animals live I whole heartedly suggest that you do, you’ll not be disappointed, wherever you stand.

Glass Animals Played:

Psylla
Black Mambo
Exxus
Gooey
Walla Walla
Intruxx
Hazey
Toes
Flip
Coaca Hooves
Wyrd
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