After many setbacks with tickets and guestlists
I headed off to the Cardiff Motorpoint Arena this
evening to check out Incubus on their first arena
tour in many years expecting to be turned away
but the staff at the Motorpoint Arena were super
efficient and sorted everything out in seconds
which meant I was able to review and photograph
the show.
When I first got into the venue I was shocked
at how empty it was, the venue holds 7500 people
when it is at maximum capacity but I would be
surprised if there were more than 2500 people
in attendance tonight.
 The support band tonight were long running English
indie band Fin. And from the crowd response and
their lacklustre performance I am pretty sure
that tonight’s slot did not gain them one
extra fan, they took to the stage and started
off playing really mellow rock and even when the
song got going with the chorus it was still real
easy listening. Instrumentally Fin. Know what
they are doing but creativity is where they are
lacking as there was nothing from there set that
stood out tonight and the further back you were
in the venue the worse they sounded.
 After a 30minute break the five piece that are
Incubus took to the stage and situated behind
them was a massive screen which featured live
filming of the night and many different mini movies
and bright swirling lights and objects. Incubus
didn’t hold back and blasted straight into
their heaviest song ‘Megalomaniac’,
this got the crowd moving at a frantic pace and
from that moment you just knew that the night
ahead was going to be fun.
 Brandon Boyd and co smashed through a great variety
of songs such as ‘Wish You Were Here’,
‘Promises Promises’, ‘Pardon
Me’, ‘Vitamin’, ‘Switchblade’
and many others but it was the classic sing-a-long
‘Drive’ and more heavy ‘Nice
To Know You’ which really got the crowd
going tonight.
When ‘Drive’ came on everyone edged
that little bit closer to the stage and Brandon
even had a little bit of time to rest his vocals
whilst the energetic crowd took over singing the
chorus each and every time, whilst ‘Nice
To Know You’ got the pit moving and had
everyone singing along for the last time before
the encore.
 The encore featured ‘A Certain Shade Of
Green’ and latest album closer ‘Tomorrow’s
Food’ which happens to be one of the most
mellow tracks that Incubus have ever written,
as the band played through it the screen was full
of different occurrences in the world such as
corn growing, explosions etc.
Incubus are a band who throughout the years have
gathered a very diverse collection of songs, you
have the more heavy songs such as ‘Megalomanic’
and ‘Nice To Know You’, the sing-a-long
moments like ‘Drive’, the more mellow
moments like ‘Thieves’ and ‘Tomorrow’s
Food’ and then the stoner rock moments like
‘Nebula’ and ‘Vitamin’
and I think this is what make’s Incubus
shows exciting but at the same time not for everyone.
There was no interaction with the crowd tonight
but when you have such an extensive back catalogue
as Incubus do then you can let the music do the
talking and that is exactly what they did.
Fin. 2/5
Incubus 4/5
Review By Trigger |
