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Live Review: New Found Glory – Liquid Room, Edinburgh, 26 August 2015

28/8/2015

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New Found Glory are 18 years and eight albums deep at this point. They’ve been going for a while.

The Florida four-piece have certainly got an appropriate amount of street cred for their time on the scene of course. Many credit them with being one of the pioneers of the modern pop-punk genre, and one of the groups battling to still keep the wobbling genre afloat.

The good thing about going to see the band live, though, is that it doesn’t matter how fragile a state the genre is when you go to the gig. It wouldn’t even matter if they were the only pop-punk group left on the face of the earth when you walked through the doors.

As soon as you hand over a ticket to see NFG, you walk into a time warp; entering a room where everyone in attendance seems to wish they were back in the pop-punk hay days of the early 2000s, at least for a few hours of the night. 

JFC: New Found Glory, My Friends Over You - Clip

New Found Glory killed it tonight at the Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh... Review to follow!

Posted by Just For Culture on Wednesday, August 26, 2015
New Found Glory aren’t one of those bands you go and see whose fans have aged to the point that they’d rather stand, watch and clap their way through a setlist than crowd surf, scream and mosh till their feet bleed.

When the group sold out the Edinburgh Liquid Room on August 26, the crowd were absolutely insane from start to finish. They knew near enough every word to every song blasted from the stage, they sang along like their life depended on it and they moshed like they’d just discovered the American pop-punk legends a couple months before.

This worked for me, seeing as I arrived about 15 minutes before NFG took to the stage, meaning the venue was already absolutely rammed. See, the JFC theory is that as long as there’s a mosh pit in the middle of a gig, you can pretty much move about the venue freely as long as you’ve got the right glint in your way.

I caught the group opening with Understatement from the top floor of the rammed venue, had moved down stairs by the time they were having a mass crowd sing-a-long to Something I Call Personality, was sneaking awkwardly past tall snapback-wearers for massive tunes Hit or Miss, Ready and Willing and a classic cover of Goo Goo Doll’s Iris, all of which were received with loving arms by the adoring crowd.

JFC: New Found Glory - Iris cover

New Found Glory cover the Goo Goo Dolls 'Iris' at Edinburgh on Wednesday night... #classic

Posted by Just For Culture on Friday, August 28, 2015
The mosh-pit awaited for Dressed To Kill, Head On Collison, Truth of My Youth and Story So Far. Safe to say, New found Glory are one of those bands who have far more catchy-as-hell anthems than you can remember until you go to see them live and they blast them all out. Admittedly, the tunes from new record ‘Resurrection’ weren’t received quite as well as their classics, but there was still a decent enough echo to render it relevant.

The chant back from the crowd at the start of All Downhill From Here was one of the most enjoyable, up there with Forget My Name in the encore, before fans started shouting that they wanted ancient B-side single So Many Ways played from the stage and the band, after taking a moment to remember exactly how it went, happily obliged. It’s the first time they’ve played the record in 12 years.

Finishing off My Friends Over You was an essential of course. It’s the anthem of a generation for New Found Glory, and it cued chaos around the crowded venue. A great gig, a brilliant flashback to the golden days of pop-punk, and seeing as the sold out gig was packed with rowdy revellers to the very brim, it’s a bright sign for the future of NFG as well. A very fun night indeed.

Stuart Kenny
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