Seafood

Wow, another American band are touring the UK, you must have noticed all the music magazines and papers salivating over the next big thing to hit us from the mighty States, whilst failing to bring to our attention some fantastic home-grown guitar bands.

The finest of which, Seafood, are tonight playing support to one of these so-called great American bands, Jimmy Eat World, who, incidentally, we stuck around to see and found to be irritating and boring. It seems that Seafood are forever touring these days, as support to some band or the other, its as if they dont care who they support as long as they slay the crowd with tracks from their fantastic two albums Surviving the Quiet and When do we start fighting?.

Last time I saw Seafood support a band it was My Vitriol, and they blew the headliners away with a short sharp set that surprised the really young audince who seemed to have a short attention span. This time round though, having had time to hone their set to perfection on said tour, and a follow up support set with Ash, Seafood are on top form. There is no time to let the audience wonder if they like this band or not, no time to let the crowd mull over if MTV would approve of them, or wether the self-styled icons of cool, NME, deem them worthy enough for their cd collections, Seafood Just come onstage, and for 30 minutes, rip the place apart.

Cloaking, Splinter, F.S.C, Guntrip, all fantastic songs and all played with a ferocity that the finest of guitar bands would find hard to equal, let alone dullards like tonights headliners. So, whilst it is infuriating that Seafood* are always supporting other bands, it is certainy doing THEM the world of good. You may not have realised yet, but we can't trust NME, MTV, the mainstream media in general to tell us when a band is really good now can we??? that would be stupid. So Seafood* are doing it the tried and tested method. The Fun way. The real way. And at some point soon, you may inadvertently bump into them supporting one of your favourite bands. Instead of wondering who this dull band are and meandering off to the bar, you won't need to. You'll know the score immediately.