Throwback Gig Reviews Part 4 : Coasts

So about 6 months ago I wrote a series of gig review blogs that were never published. So here's a little throwback series featuring Meadowlark, Rae Morris, Slowdive, Coasts, Joe Dolman and Tom Speight.

Coasts

Leeds residents may be familiar with the church on Woodhouse Lane, on the way up to the university, which used to be the nightclub, Halo. Today the old church has been converted into two venue spaces; one called Church an the other, The Chapel. The latter was to be the host of the Coasts Leeds date on the 23rd of October.

Fun fact, this was actually the 12th time that I was seeing Coasts live. Crazy fangirl in the house!

First to the stage were Misfires, a four-piece from Swindon, who got the party started on a Monday night.

The bouncy indie sound of Misfires was quick to attract the attention of BBC Introducing in the west and I would recommend going to check them out yourself. Top tracks of the night included ’22’ and “Do You Wanna”

Misfires returned to The Chapel’s stage on the 25th November.

Coasts aka. Chris Caines, James Gamage, Liam Willford, David Goulbourn and Ben Street have epic stage presence, effervescent energy and awesome dance moves.

They quite literally getting better and better every time that I see them, but don’t take my word for it, Coasts will be back touring around the UK in April. 

Coasts released their second album in the summer of 2017,  August the 18th to be precise, entitled ‘This Life, Vol. 1’ and have accompanied the release with a marathon 38 date tour throughout September and October around the UK.

The tour is now drawing to a close yet it wouldn’t be complete without a trip to Leeds. After all, Leeds is one of the band’s favourite places to play….or maybe Chris just said that at the time to keep the audience happy. 

Coasts brought the Chapel to life with a set peppered with songs from both the new album and their self-titled debut album, including crowd pleaser ‘Oceans’ and did I mention that there were balloons!

Although they assured us that they hadn't brought any balloons with them, there were nevertheless a number of them in the rafters, resulting in balloons being thrown all around the room. #banter

Coasts are very serious band though and the whole balloon business was very off-putting Chris joked. In reply, guitarist Liam bopped Chris on the back of the head ( with a balloon I should add) during ‘Paradise.”

My top tracks of the night included, from the new album, 'Take Me Back Home’ and ‘White Noise’ and debut album fave ‘Wolves.’

Coasts are back on tour in the UK in April and will be joined by Only Shadows