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There was quite a bit of excitement about this gig leading up to it. Local up-and-comers Idiom, returning home for a one-off gig after a support slot on Soulfly's UK tour, always pull in a crowd and with support from I Divide, Chick Rides Artist and Here In Venice, this night promised to be no different.
The queue outside the venue told the same story. This night was going to be one to remember...
The vast majority of the crowd seemed to be stuck in a never dwindling queue and while Here In Venice, and Chick Rides Artist played before a slowly growing crowd, they left everything they had on the Cavern Stage.
I Divide, fresh off their hugely successful Download 2012 appearance had the crowd ready to eat from the palms of their hands. The floor was abuzz while their Intro played and the boys burst into 'The Arrival' Exeter's music hungry fans responded in kind. The 5 lads ripped through 'Never To Be Stopped' and then into a new track 'Follow Me' which was very well received. The boys got the crowd singing along with 'Burning Out' and the crowd surfing began. The high energy 'This Ships Going Down' was intended to wrap things up with Idiom singer Matt Sharland being called on stage to join Tom Kavanagh to perform, but the frenzied crowd were having none of it. Kavanagh joined the ranks of Crowd-Surfers while the band played out to chants of "One More Song" a sight rarely seen in Cavern support slot history.
Then it was Idiom's turn. Singer Matt Sharland wasted little time instructing the crowd to "Get in the Pit right now" and the quartet burst into 'Movement' and 'Red' without so much as a gap in between. 'Beast of Bodmin' a hugely popular internet video filled the floor. Guitarist Kris Gibbs' wind-milling, bassist Grant Knight's stage antics along with Sharlands' high-energy stage presence something special was indeed happening in Devon.
The intensity increased as the Idiom Crew blasted through 'In The Fall', 'Said And Done' and 'All I know' with the occasional vocal assistance from Carl 'Yogi' Luckham the bands' loyal road crew for pretty much the bands' entire career, drummer Dan Harrison was frantically ripping up the drum-kit and shaking off the blisters. 'If You Gotta Lyric' had the band and crowd ready to pounce just in time for '12-Bar Blues' where Sharland decided to go join the pit, albeit not entirely planned and the blood and bruises he showed-off was and indication of the dedication this band has to their act. 'Cold Beer Run' and 'Braindead' set the stage for that one last song. Idiom have been around the Exeter scene for a while and you could say if you had to name an Idiom track that is the perfect way to end, that track would be 'Placebo' lucky you Exeter.
Sharland, Gibbs, Knight and Harrison left their blood, sweat and pretty much every clich้ imaginable literally on the stage this night, and from the steam rising from those in attendance outside the venue they were given everything the crowd had to give with the greatest of pleasures. Keep an eye out for I Divide and Idiom, we'll all be seeing a lot of these guys very soon.
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article by: Will Tudor
photos by: Will Tudor
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| published: 24/07/2012 09:39 |
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