Subway Funeral

6 gigs in 6 weeks. Number 6 was Thursday at the Academy 2 Birmingham. A band that have been going for 10+ years and with 5 full-lengths under their belt and only a few people show to see them, what's going on there? Currently on tour with Rise Against and Poison the Well this show is a day off for them and I for one am thankful they came to Birmingham! The first support act a 'Telegraphs' were let down by the poor sound and even poorer crowd with only about 20 people standing around. Poison the Well fare much better, it seems that a lot of the crowd have come just to see them and they a play a solid set, its brutal and it's loud and you can't help but move your feet. Having never listened to them before I really liked them and I even recognised one song 'For a bandaged iris' but yet again they were let down by the poor sound with the clean vocals completely lost to the guitars.

Then came Thursday, I for one was really disappointed at the poor showing for such an established band but it didn't seem to affect them with Geoff joking that people must have thought they were Metallica with the amount of people that showed up! Touring their current album Common Existence they opened with 'Resuscitation of a dead man' and then went on to play a varied set taking in all 5 albums, more of a greatest hits show! Highlights included 'Division Street', 'Signals over the air' and 'Jet black new year' with the crowd singing along to every word and Geoff mincing around on the stage acting as if he was playing to a full room. The only down point was once again the sound, being right down the front you could just make out the singing and he seemed louder when he wasn't using the mic! Sort it out!