Bring Me The Horizon, O2 Academy, Glasgow
Ian McConnell, Five stars
AT about an hour, the 13-song set was pretty short and to the point, especially given this Sheffield band’s impressive back catalogue.
But Oliver Sykes and the rest of BMTH made sure that any shortcomings in terms of length of the set were more than compensated for by typically high energy levels, with the largely youthful audience also ensuring that the sold-out venue was literally jumping for this one.
While the tracks from new album That’s The Spirit, including the opening Doomed and the heavier Throne, stood up well to live performance, old favourites such as Chelsea Smile and Sleepwalking were among the stand-outs. The back catalogue was, at times, impressively raw.
Audience participation figured prominently throughout, with perhaps surprisingly tuneful contributions when the microphone was turned away from the stage. And the audience certainly got into the spirit of Antivist.
The stage-set looked intriguing before things got going, with something that looked like the fence around an electricity sub-station behind the band.
This turned out to be the grid for some pretty impressive back-lighting, which worked well in the Art Deco surroundings of the packed former New Bedford Picture House.
Drown provided a strong finish to a two-song encore. The audience left hungry for more, and it would have been great to hear the likes of Hospital for Souls live, but there is always next time.
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