The Front Bottoms

Headliner: The Front Bottoms
Venue: Bodega Social Club Nottingham
Date: 20 Sep 2013
Support: Shankland, Alsion Weiss

So its been a while but plenty of gigs coming up in the next few months but it was of to see The Front Bottoms at the Bodega in Nottingham.

First up tonight was Shankland playing solo acoustic music I have seen him before at one of my least favourite venues The Maze where he seems to be "local" in the league of gentlemen sense. He's ok but not brilliant.

Next up Alison Weiss an artist from New York again playing solo with a guitar I liked her the music and it was backed up with some nice interaction and stories, not totally my style of music and would I go searching out here music in the future? probably not but I enjoyed her set.

The Headliner for the night was The Front Bottoms from New Jersey touring their latest album Talon of the Hawk which I really enjoyed and was in fact their fourth album.

I'm not really sure how you can describe The Front bottoms part Blink 182, part Pavement, part like nothing else. Quirky indie pop punk I guess.

I was really impressed with the crowd they new all the words and were singing along and having a really good time a little bit of crowd surfing and all that.

The Front Bottoms blasted through an hour long set with no time for an encore at the end of the set the crowd were desperate for one more song but alas due to the venue wanting to take the money off a load of drunk students for a Friday night club night the sound man became the most hated man in the venue by denying this request.