July
2006
Captain at Barfly
Yesterday I noticed on very short notice that an indie band known as Captian were playing at the Barfly. So on a spur of the moment thing I booked a ticket and went along, on what was the hotest day of the year so far. I saw Captain support Delays back in March and was impressed by the melodic tunes, their second single and rather anthemic “broke” has been on my summer playlist for a while.
I hadn’t been to the barfly before and while being nothing to write home about it was more than spacious for this gig. I don’t like it when the support bands are very different from the main act, it tends to make the evening feel broken, but that’s what happened. The first act although having roots in Brum, wasn’t really my kind of thing, they had borrowed a member of the Guillemots and a few members of the crowd liked them. The second support from my perspective were better.
Captain took to the stage just shy of 10pm and were really cool, the set was energetic and they played a few of the recent releases as well as telling us that their debut album is out early to mid August. Full of melody and having catchy tunes, the album should be something to look forward to. The band drew in a decent sized crowd, considering how nice an evening it must have been to be outside.
