Leeds based five piece The
Indigo Project headlined The Crescent
this Monday evening, bringing in three brilliant and well known York bands as
their support, Follow The Giant, Cry Baby and Serotones.
Opening up were four piece Follow The Giant, the band released their latest single Chemistry
a couple of months ago, which they saved towards the end of the set. From start to finish they played with a lot of
energy and frontman Jamie Collins was
constantly moving about the stage and giving his best efforts to try and get
the crowd more involved. It’s never easy being the first band on, especially
when the crowd are all rather young and not willing to move too much. But
despite this unenthusiasm the band continued to play with as much passion as
they would at any gig.Inspired by bands such as Catfish and The Bottlemen and The Hunna, Follow The Giant are a heavy indie pop-rock band, their songs are all catchy, will have you moving and singing along in no time. Last night was the first night on their autumn tour, make sure you catch them at one of their gigs.
Second on were Cry
Baby, a band I’ve seen perform a handful of times and have always had a
blast watching. It was obvious that the crowd were more associated with Cry
Baby and therefore they were able to raise the energy in the room considerably
more. A group of girls at the front were dancing from start to finish of their
set, and the rest of the crowd were moving to the indie melodies they provided.
They played the two singles they released earlier this year How
It Might Be and Take Me Away. Which had a few
members of the audience singing along, myself included. They also played few
new songs, one of which guitarist Olly
Chilton played a mini solo that had an old school guitar rock feel to it,
which is something I’ve never heard from Cry Baby before but thoroughly enjoyed.
The band also seemed to have loosened up on stage and they were giving a lot
more energy than some of their earlier gigs this year. Moving about on stage
more and interacting with each other, they just looked like they were having so
much more fun up there and the audience responded to it. Frontman Jack Armstrong has a voice much suited
to their upbeat indie sound and
Main support was one of my favourite York bands, Serotones, they played brilliantly and
kept the crowd moving throughout their set ready for the headliners. Singer Duke Witter has one of the best frontman
attitudes I’ve seen in a while, he constantly moves around the stage, gets
audiences riled up and has a bold confidence that can only grow to carry
Serotones to bigger and better things. They opened up with Keep In Mind, a track
that only the fans who have seen them live before would recognise, they
followed this with She Said, the last track they released a recording of, and one
of their softer more indie based songs. Middle of the set list was one of my
favourites of their live songs, Tell Me How It Feels, they recently
performed an acoustic version of the song on YO1 Radio which you can see a
snippet of on their Facebook page. Bassist Sonny
Leach and guitarist Sam Lambert
swapped instruments for their last song Never Back Down which displayed
their strong musical talent and added an extra something to the set. Serotones
have their first headline gig and EP launch at Fibbers on 2nd
November with support from DVSK, The Mallrats and Glass
Traps. This is the best line up we’ve seen since The Televangelists’
headline gig; it’s going to be an absolutely crazy night as all of these bands
get a crowd going insane.
Finally Leeds headliners, The Indigo Project took
to the stage, they’re currently halfway through their Autumn tour, supporting
the release of their latest single release By Your Side. This was my first time
seeing The Indigo Project live and they didn’t disappoint, despite the crowd
filtering down they played with a lot of energy and talent. Their songs are
upbeat indie pop that you simply can’t stand still to. Frontman Joe Spink, engaged with the audience
brilliantly, managing to get a bunch of stiffs to loosen up and have a bogey to
the bands songs. I’ve never seen a band with three guitarists before, and would
normally question the need for so many, but The Indigo Project stand on stage
like a small musical family that were born to perform together. They just
looked like they were having such fun on stage and it made the audience want to
mimic that level of energy. I can only imagine how brilliant they must be live
at some of the bigger venues they have performed at with the audience number
being in the 100s.
Review and photography by Holly Beson-Tams
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