Sunday 17 October 2010

In Darklight @ The Hobbit; Southampton 8/10/10

Yesterday I went to The Hobbit, somewhere I had never been before until yesterday, I can honestly say I loved the warm lively atmosphere of the venue.....I'm a Southampton Solent student so I'm interested in getting to know all the student friendly pubs and music venues in Southampton since I love gigs.

Anyway after a 15 min wait for a drink, the queue at the bar was manic, I headed downstairs to where the band were playing that evening. This was my third time seeing them and I was waiting paitiently as they were doing sound checks before they started.

Once they had done soundcheck In Darklight were well under way beginning with a very studio like performance of In Control (Of Not Being In Control) only a bit louder giving off the fresh indie rock band vibe with indie boy vocals and catchy guitar riffs that you could be humming all day long. Along with ones off their debut album Dying To Confess (which is avaliable to download or buy now) they performed some new ones of their upcoming album, some of which I recognised from previous gigs. Particulalrly one song (I think it was Quickfire) where lead vocalist Ben Sellers got the audience to sing back, which I unfortunately couldn't due to a bad throat. I got particularly excited when they performed my personal favourite What's Happening?, the opening track of the album. 




The guys also signed my album which I was very pleased with and well let's just say it has a special place in my bedroom :D

Overall the guys performed a great show and I'm hoping to see them again soon......maybe at Reading Festival who knows? :)

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the kind review Charlotte, was great to have you there!

    Lou

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  2. OMG first comment, thanks Lou :D

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