A sold out crowd in the ABC, hundreds of absolutely mental Scots screaming along to the lyrics, and I was there! Twin Atlantic definitely came back home to Glasgow with a bang!
Me and my loyal band of gig going friends headed into Glasgow to check out Twin Atlantic’s sell out gig. We figured that since the doors were at 7pm we’d head in about quarter to 8. Miss the crowd and still get there for around the time of the first support band. Everyone wins yeah? No. We got there about 45 minutes after the doors opened and the place was queued half way up the street, first sign that it’s going to be an epic night.
Caught the end of the first support band, Light Guides, from what I heard they sounded quite good and Sam from Twin Atlantic said to “Get fucking listening to them” so anyone reading this should hit up their MySpace or face the wrath of Sam!
The main support act, Canterbury, were not bad either. They fit the gig well and got the crowd and the atmosphere buzzing but there’s no doubt that Twin Atlantic were who everyone in the ABC was there to see.
They came on stage and the place erupted. There was a massive surge forward that must have hit some high numbers on the Richter scale and saw me pushed up so close to quite a few strangers that I’m pretty sure some of our DNA may have combined. The banter was flowing throughout the set and it was pretty obvious to all there that the guys on stage did not expect the welcome they got and were pretty humbled by it all. It added to the experience though, they were having the time of their lives on stage and we were all sharing it with them in the crowd.
They ran through all the tracks on the Vivarium album, as well as some new tracks that have me very impatient for a new release by them and they played a fan’s favourite (especially this fan) Crashland. As all this was happening probably 99.9% of all the people in the venue screamed every word along to the music while trying to get as close as possible to the stage. To end an amazing gig TA played Audience and Audio and Sam dived into the crowd where he was most likely violated in several different ways, ravaged by lusty fans of both genders.
So me and my hardy troupe of fellow fans staggered out of the crowd sore (in a good way), covered in many people’s sweat, a breweries worth of beer and cider and I don’t like to think what else and headed home with the hopes of doing it all again at DF Concert’s birthday party in King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, headlining Twin Atlantic!
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