Athlete : Brixton Academy Gig

Saw Athlete on Wednesday night at the great venue Brixton Academy. They're currently touring their new album Tourist but played lots of crowd pleasers off their previous album Vehicles & Animals (including both my favourites Shake Those Windows and the title track!). Top tune of the night for me was 'Tourist' though - great sing along track!

Support acts were pretty good too - Iain Archer whom I'd not heard of before did a solo acoustic/electric set and, apart from a couple of songs with rather tame 80's drum backing (get a REAL drummer!), I really enjoyed. Then came on The Magic Numbers, who were a little bit cheesey with lots of male/female call and answer style songs. If Abba were dark haired and more chubby this is what they might have looked like. To be fair, if you do like folky type rock then they might well be up your street, and they do have a great illustration of the band members as their logo!

Athlete blew them away though, the drummer was excellent and made it look very easy using lots of electronic samples etc. I find myself watching drummers more closely than ever these days for technique hints and tips.

If you can still get tickets for shows I'd highly recommend you bag yourselves a couple.