Wow, last night at the Academy was amazing. It was originally postponed from March 18th due to Chino having a bad throat. Well, no signs of that last night as Chino screamed his lunges out. Only the second time I’ve seen them live, last time was 4 years ago at Wembley Arena – they didn’t sound too good back then probably due to the bad sound system there. But I’m happy to say they sounded awesome last night – definitely improved - right from the opening verse of Korea all the way through to the end of Change (in the House of Flies).
The set-list was brilliant. They played so many songs that I never thought I’d hear them do live. Passenger, Knife Party (which even included Chino doing the woman’s screaming to great effect!) and even Back To School - it was pretty much a flawless set-list...they even threw in the cover of The Cure’s If Only Tonight We Could Sleep; however, the only disappointment for me was no inclusion of Rats! Rats! Rats!
I’m now hoping that it doesn’t take them another four years to tour again, although if it’s as good as last nights it’ll be worth the wait.