Stray From The Path + Dead Harts + Polar @ The Asylum, 26th November 2015
Being a photographer for Brumlive gives you nothing if not variety. Our Chris Bowley went from the techno indie-pop of Chvrches at the Academy one night to the mayhem of Stray From the Path at The Asylum the next:
New Yorkers Stray From the Path have a huge following but started their set by stating that they don’t care if they have 100 fans or 5000 fans they are doing what they love and enjoy, before launching into New God,s Outbreak and Badge 2, bellowing out their angry screaming lyrics. The music was deafening but the crowd didn’t mind leaping up and down, swinging arms and flailing around. Front man Drew was pushing the mic into the crowd for them to sing along with him and up and down the barriers the entire set.
Both support acts deserve mentioning, a lot of energy goes into tonight’s performances, more than I’ve seen anywhere, I guess this goes with the music style.
So first we had London-based Polar with scary looking lead singer Adams getting the crowd raging from the start. The mosh got going early on and Adam was keen to keep getting up and down the pit walls demanding full participation. At one point he made the crowd all sit on the floor, the crowd initially didn’t respond to the request and proceeds to bellow out “sit down on the f*cking floor”, so that is what they did!
Onto the second support act of the night is Dead harts, These are a very fast paced act, bringing electric energy to the stage. The lead singer Anthony (also known as Bax) was all over the stage, running and jumping all over and then later into the crowd. He proceeded to cause a pit riot with all flailing arms heads with much energy it’s a surprise no-one was knocked out. Musically it has to be hard to keep the vocals consistent with so much volume but the crowd loved every bit of it.
Speaking to members of the audience they said the show was amazing, and I don’t disagree but just a little bit different to Chvrches the night before!
Stray From The Path
New Gods
Outbreak
Badge 2
Die pig
Scissor Hands
Shots Fired
Snap
Black Friday
Eavesdropper
Damien
First World Problem Child
Badge 1
Word and photographs Chris Bowley