Tonight looks set to be an extremely good night when you consider the three support acts headliners You Me At Six have brought along on tour with them. Add to this the fact that this is the last show of their UK tour and it really does look like it’s going to be one cracking gig. It seems unfortunate then that the sizeably long queue prevents the vast majority of the crowd from catching Canterbury’s set which is a darn shame as the quality of their songs suggest that they most likely pulled off a fresh, energetic and exciting performance. They may have lost out on winning over new fans here, but they’re definitely ones to watch in 2011.
Therefore, it falls on Set Your Goals to kick the night off in style. With seven years experience behind them it’s easy to assume that SYG will sail through an opening slot with ease but sadly tonight any previous experience seems to have been forgotten as they trudge their way through a clumsy and seemingly repetitive set. Little stage presence and an unresponsive crowd lead to a half formed pit; the pit is there but somehow the moshing isn’t. To top this off, the minimal variety of songs make it impossible for this to be an enjoyable set for almost anyone with standards. However, luckily for SYG, the mass of impressionable teenage girls swarmed around the stage tonight apparently soak up any mild pop-punk which is thrown their way.
Surely The Blackout can turn the night around? After all, they’ve built up a dependable reputation for being extremely entertaining, rough as hell and frenetic as fuck when it comes to their live performances. It’s almost certified that they’ll tear this place apart tonight… Or not. A comparably tame, largely sugar-coated performance greets the crowd tonight, ensuring that restless You Me At Six fans will love every second but leading fans of The Blackout to question why they even bothered attending this gig at all. ’I’m a Riot? You’re a Fucking Riot!’ fails to evoke a response from the crowd while the most Sean Smith can muster up tonight is a quick display of his middle finger. Disappointing to say the least.
After a disastrous round of performances from the support acts, it’s left to headliners You Me At Six to pull something truly special out of the hat and to achieve this monumental task, they’ve decided to open with ‘Save It For the Bedroom’. Unluckily for them, while this may have previously been the highlight of their set which saw mass sing alongs and jumping galore, these days it hasn’t got enough of a kick to it to really get the crowd warmed up. What follows is a similarly mediocre performance with the only real highlight being the acoustically performed ‘Always Attract’ which finally forms a reaction in the crowd with lighters held aloft and plenty of swaying arms. It’s not that You Me At Six are on particularly bad form tonight; they’ve just failed to ignite a connection with the infuriatingly dull crowd. All in all, a tragically abysmal end to what has been a great year for You Me At Six.
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