Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Cast: Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Taylor Hawkins, Rami Jaffee, Chris Shiflett, Whitney Cummings, Jeff Garlin, Leslie Grossman, Jenna Ortega, Marti Matulis, Kerry King, Will Forte, Jason Trost, Mike Escamilla, Lional Richie, John Carpenter, Jimmi Simpson, Alexander Ward, Eli Santana, Aaron Valenzuela, Kayla Loadvine, Ivan Kungurtsey.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Taking Medicine At Midnight can lead to the mind going places it has no right to be, the sense of the equilibrium being askew, the mist descending and creating a thick fog to which anger is subdued, where dreams become stretched, like shapeless marzipan they lose their consistency, and no matter how much you enjoy the sensation, it just feels as though you are out of whack, out of time with yourself and what you desire in a world without medication.
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It can almost feel like musical sacrilege to feel indifferent about one of the great bands of the modern era; somehow something inside fails to fall in line with expectation, with what you see and hear around you taking place and whilst you might be forced to reconcile those feelings with what everybody else is saying. Deep down, you know something is not right, something has lost its charm and become staid, good, alright, even reflectively sober, but it doesn’t grab you, it not set in concrete and does not have the allure of gold.
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There is putting a shift in and there is pushing it just that one step far before the first signs of a crumble start to appear. It can happen if time is not taken away from the studio and the filtering system of creativity is slightly blunted and becomes torn round the edges. The greats can get away with it however for perhaps a little while longer and whilst Sonic Highways, the new studio album from Foo Fighters, is for the most part a rock dream it is sadly not the full romp that has come to define the group for last decade and a half.
For any band to follow up one of their finest albums especially after a four year gap can be daunting, especially when that album was the sensational and 2 x platinum selling Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace.
With the bands seventh studio album Wasting Light, Foo Fighters have done that…just. The album has a wonderful urban feel to it and should come as no surprise to the band’s massive following and multitude of fans that the album was originally recorded in Dave Grohl‘s garage. Other bands have tried this effect of taking the band feel and giving it a new environment and in a lot of times it doesn’t give the band the sound or the credit they deserve for the experiment, in this case however, the deconstructive result gives the band an unseen quality that many would have missed over the last fifteen years.
Photograph by Ian D. Hall
Originally published by L.S. Media. July 2nd 2011.
As the sun descended over the top of the stage and temporarily blinded the majority of the crowd at the packed out Milton Keynes Bowl, the Foo Fighters exploded onto the stage and gave one of the great performances of the summer and indeed of the year so far.
After already thrilling the Isle of Wight festival goers a few weeks ago, there really was only one way to top what some critics called spectacular and that was by stealing your own show and adding just that little bit of sparkle to a set list that would make the audience sit up, take notice and beg for the band not to stop playing no matter what the curfew time stated.