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< British Sea Power @ The Bristol Forum
words by Sherief Younis
Bringing their eccentrically endearing Wicker Man charm to the Forum, British Sea Power come as close to legal vandalism as you're likely to get. Possibly spurred on by a support slot by The Wurzels, they race through five consecutive singles with the tumbledown nonchalance we’ve come to expect.
The foliage is there, the kestrel is there, Eamon's even rocking ye olde cider jug as well as a hard hat come video camera and there is the obligatory marauding tom. They rip through 'Apologies to Insect Life', the rasping riff driven 'Spirit of St Louis' and 'Remember Me' as an introduction and then, as you'd expect, it all goes a little awry.
Eamon, fresh from his Brakes antics, resembles an outpatient from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as he takes his drummer boy role to heart and rambles from the stage to the balcony upstairs, only stopping to shout incoherencies and hit any bystanders on the head.
Climaxing in a flurry of snow, a not so subtle dismantling of the stage and the decapitation of a scarecrow, it’s some finale. Let’s hope British Sea Power do an Elbow and finally emerge over the parapet of the underrated.
Originally appeared in volume 1, issue 8 of Loud & Quiet magazine
