On Monday 4th March 2024 I finally, after trying previously on three different occasions, got to see Everything Everything performing Live. The gig was an Album playthrough to promote their new album ‘Mountainhead’. When I booked the tickets to go see this event the venue it was in wasn’t even open! It’s brand new. The venue is in the basement so a flight of stairs down (and of course back up), shame it isn’t (yet) an accessible venue, although I believe there is planning permission, or at least a plan to have a lift installed, so watch this space I guess. But regardless, I arrived around 17:10 and the event was due to start at 17:30.
Now, unknown to me, I had tickets for the later showing at 19:30 – I had no idea there was an early and late show.. I really didn’t. Back when I booked, I don’t think the time was shown at all. Thankfully, the staff on the door allowed us in to this earlier event. We headed downstairs and grabbed a drink. The bar area isn’t fully set up yet, but they can serve drinks, so we got one and went and found a decent place to stand. The band came on more or less on time at 5:30pm and proceeded to start to play songs from their new album. One of my pet peeves is that there is never an accurate record of a setlist after smaller gigs, and this was.. a smaller gig. Based upon my memory, they played all but two of the tracks on the Mountainhead album, and the classic track they played was Cough Cough.
They really do sing well live. You know that you can’t really tell how a band sounds till they are playing live, but EE.. Really can play and sing just as they do when recorded. It was a great performance. An intimate venue and made up a decent portion of a good night. The music on Mountainhead is a little more progressive than that on Raw Data Feel. It’s Progressive Rock/Pop mostly. Many guitars and drums with more synths and keyboards than Raw Data Feel. There isn’t a song on the album I don’t like. Some are catchier than others for sure, always will be, but there are no skips for me, plenty to sing along to!
I would return the the Jacaranda Baltic to see other artists in the future, that’s for sure, and as for Everything Everything… I am seeing them again early April in London @ The Troxy.. a 3000 capacity venue – Eak!