Since this first performance I've seen Foals a number of times and they never disappoint. In all my years, I've never seen someone with such a low fear of death or injury. Somehow, Yannis makes his way to the side of the venue and proceeds to climb up to the balcony level, and again, launches himself off into the crowd. What happened next was a thing of beauty. All the while, Yannis continues playing his guitar.
Yannis runs top speed and propels himself into the crowd (who were miraculously ready and caught him). The song progressed into songs off their sophomore release, "Total Life Forever", where they played "Blue Blood", the aforementioned "Spanish Sahara", and the amped-up "Two Steps, Twice". Ebbing and flowing with the music, people crowd surfing and ramming into each other. They ran through a few of their hits from their first album, "Mathletics", such as "Red Socks Pugie", and "Cassius". He had a wireless setup for that guitar - a tipoff that I immediately recognized. Then lead singer Yannis Phillippakis takes the stage, his signature black Travis Bean guitar in hand. That song is probably the tamest one they played, and I couldn't be more grateful.Ī strobe light show starts off their performance to the band members entering one by one.
Turns out that one song was merely a comma in the string of punctuations this band is capable of creating. Just that one song and my mind was made up. The first time I saw Foals was only after I had just listened to their song, "Spanish Sahara".
These are the words that come to mind when I think about a Foals show.
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