 Tonight was the finale of my triple whammy of
gigs in a week at the Academy in my Bristol and
what an experience tonight was, the show was sold
out and the show I went to yesterday was also
sold out but the only difference was that yesterday
you could move and today everyone was packed in
like sardines it was stupidly hot and dangerous
but the show had to go on.
I made my way in 20minutes before Jimmy Eat World
were due on stage, I made my way right to the
front of the stage for the photopass and waited
patiently for Jimmy Eat World to start and during
the waiting I managed to witness a kid get dragged
out from the front of the barrier a couple of
minutes before Jimmy Eat World were due to take
to the stage due to the bouncers finding two pint
cups of wee sat on the security barrier in front
of him which he obviously filled up whilst spending
a good two hours in the same position waiting
for his hero’s, I did feel slightly sorry
for the kid but what he did was wrong.
 Seconds later the lights dimmed and Jimmy Eat
World took to the stage and got stuck straight
in with the crowd pleaser ‘Bleed America’
and from that moment the moshing started and only
stopped for the odd slow and atmospheric song.
Jimmy Eat World played a massive 21 song set
and only stopped to talk to the audience on a
couple of occasions the first being to talk to
the crowd about Cyber Dog shop after spotting
someone’s light up Space Invaders top which
reacts to sound and the second to tell the crowd
that they are a bit demanding after getting fed
up of people shouting “get on with it”
after each and every song even though they were
only talking a 20second break for water and to
freshen up.
The set was like a massive greatest hits set
with some amazing songs being played such as ‘Big
Casino’, ‘Futures’, ‘23’,
‘Pain’, ‘The Middle’ and
even the many songs from their new album ‘Invented’
went down really well tonight with the current
single ‘My Best Theory’ going down
the best followed by ‘Movielike’ and
‘Coffee And Cigarettes’.
 There were a few boring moments during the gig
which I am sure only the hardcore fans appreciated
and that was during songs such as ‘Sky Harbor’
and ‘Invented’ which seemed to go
on for ten minutes each, they were quite atmospheric
sounding but after 5minutes started to get a bit
to repetitive to me.
The encore featured 4 songs which consisted of
the ever so long ‘Invented’, ‘Get
It Faster’, everyone’s favourite sing-a-long
song ‘The Middle’ and beautiful finisher
‘Sweetness’ which had the Academy
erupt into madness for the final time.
Jimmy Eat World must have left the stage knowing
that they did the Academy proud tonight, frontman
Jim Adkins black shirt was dripping wet from playing
nearly two hours of classic material and I reckon
even the “get on with it” hecklers
went home smiling in the end.
4/5
Review By Trigger |
