Hot Hot Heat provide electric end to Carling Weekend : Leeds Festival
Hot Hot Heat proved an electric end to the Carling Weekend : Leeds Festival tonight (August 26).
The Canadian band debuted material from their forthcoming album 'Happiness Ltd' namely forthcoming single 'Let Me In'.
The track showcased a bigger sound for the band with a Killers influence permeating the tune.
Wearing a white sports jacket and sporting his trademark jerry curl hair do singer Steve Bays lead the band though a number of fan favourite including 'Dirty Mouth' and 'Talk To Me, Dance With Me'.
Biggest cheer of the evening came for 'Bandages' which singer Steve Bays introduced by saying: "You guys might know this track."
Headlining the Carling Tent the band closed their set with 'Elevator' album track 'Goodnight Goodnight' which Bays dedicated to the Leeds audience.
They played:
'Island Of The Honest Man'
'Dirty Mouth'
'Get In Or Get Out'
'Middle Of Nowhere'
'My Best Fiend'
'Naked In The City Again'
'Let Me In'
'Bandages'
'Harmonicas And Tambourines'
'Elevator'
'Talk To Me Dance With Me' |
Rilo Kiley cover Jenny Lewis in London
Rilo Kiley covered singer Jenny Lewis' solo song during their London gig tonight (August 20).
The band played a funky version of Lewis' solo tune 'Rise Up With Fists'.
Introducing the track Lewis said: "This is a cover song..."
Guitarist and vocalist Blake Sennett told the crowd: "This is only the fourth gig we've played in two years. You're the best crowd so far."
Later Lewis said: "The first three (shows) were turds."
The four piece were augmented by two extra members who played keyboards, trumpet, guitar and trumpet. They were introduced as Orinda and Kristen.
Playing a number of songs from new album 'Under The Blacklight' including a bluegrass version of the title track, Rilo Kiley introduced '15' by saying: "How many 15 year olds are there here tonight? No one? Ok...".
Before 'Dejalo' Lewis said: "Does anyone speak Spanish? I don't." Prior to 'Smoke Detector' the singer said: "This song was inspired by a dance. I'm not a very good dancer but I'm happy to demonstrate."
Before first encore Lewis was joined by Orinda and Kristen for a version of 'Give A Little Love' by saying : "We've never done this before, so don't kill us if we mess it up."
She told this audience: "I wrote that song for Blake- he knows..."
Sennett and guitarist Pierre De Reeder played ukulele and mandolin for a version of 'Ripchord'. |
The Police amazed by reaction to comeback tour
The Police's current comeback tour has overcome a difficult start to go "possibly beyond what we hoped", according to guitarist Andy Summers.
The trio of Summers, singer-bassist Sting and drummer Stewart Copeland are touring together for the first time in 23 years, and is tipped to be the biggest grossing tour in the world this year. And Summers, 64, admits the band can't quite believe the response to their return.
He told JAM! Music: "We're just having one knockout show after another. We keep thinking we've done the best show we'll ever do and then somehow we do another one that we seem to have upped the ante.
"We've become very sure of the material and onstage now it's just gotten faster, looser and funnier. There's a lot of humour and antics now. I mean, we're sort of loosening up with it. I think (in) our little mini-universe, we're very sure of where we are now."
He added: "The tour just sort of exploded, so it's actually gone possibly beyond what we hoped. In reality, that seems to be fulfilling the mythology."
The tour got off to a trick start when Copeland called Sting "a petulant pansy" and said "Andy is in Idaho" on a blog following the opening Vancouver shows in May.
Summers admitted: "We sort of passed through that and sort of laughed about it in the end. You know, it's an idle moment in your hotel bedroom that went sort of wrong, not because necessarily of Stewart's warped sense of humour, but because the media pick it up and turn it into a negative.
"That's why we end up hating the media, 'cause it's such bullshit. It's got nothing to do with reality or the band. It wasn't the greatest move, but anyway, there you go."
The Police's sold-out UK shows kick off on September 4 at Birmingham National Indoor Arena. The band will also play dates in London, Manchester and Cardiff. |