Report: Rockfeedback @ iTunes Festival Night 5 - Snow Patrol, Animal Kingdom and Silversun Pickups, 5/7/09
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By: Matt Tomiak
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This year, Rockfeedback is delighted to be the official blog partner for the rather exciting iTunes Festival, taking place at London's Roundhouse every night in July. Over the course of the festival, we'll not be missing a night, delivering morning-after reports on everyone from Oasis and Bloc Party to Franz Ferdinand and Kasabian playing intimate sets to fans lucky enough to have won tickets to the shows. Within days, we'll also be bringing you exclusive live and interview footage with a selection of them too. Snow Patrol, Animal Kingdom and Silversun Pickups ascend to the stage for the fifth evening.
[SNOW PATROL]
Following Animal Kingdom's twinkly Coldplay-isms and Silversun Pickups' fuzzy Smashing Pumpkins/Placebo pop-grunge hybrid, Snow Patrol bound enthusiastically into the iTunes festival fray.
White-shirted, shaggy-haired singer Gary Lightbody throws Richard Ashcroft-style Messianic poses with abandon, but he still can't shake off his band's lingering air of workmanlike, job-well-done functionality. He banters amiably enough and cheerfully predicts "live onstage deaths" due to having played solely truncated support slots of late, and indeed tonight's show does at least begin louder, harder and faster than might have been expected - the large-chorused hits 'Chocolate', 'Hands Open' and 'Run' are all dispatched early, lending the set a slightly top heavy feel.
Yet Lightbody remains an endearingly gawky and grateful presence, and for all their erstwhile toilet-circuit credentials, Snow Partol tonight, and nowadays in general, resemble a far slicker, more polished ensemble who truly struck it lucky.
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