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FEET: Make It Up

Event date: 08/11/2024 Export event

Event Location: The Brickyard

Friday 8 November

When FEET self-released their debut album in 2019, the group offered up a particularly oblique title: What’s Inside Is More Than Just Ham.

But once fans and casual listeners alike delved into the record, it didn’t take long to realise that the band were offering something far meatier than wafer-slim slices of that eponymous sandwich filling. Instead, here was a record that saw them carving up thick slabs of guitar music that careered wildly between flavours of indie-pop, psych, and even subtle shades of new wave across an exciting and brilliantly unpredictable 35 minutes.

The album attracted acclaim from music titles across the land, but there was praise for the band’s bold visuals too. The video for ‘Petty Thieving’, one of the band’s early standouts, came accompanied by a video that saw them donning armour and chainmail to stage the silliest Medieval fight since Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Since then, FEET have been slowly readying themselves for a grand return. 2021’s Walking Machine EP showed that their reputation for jagged guitars and spiky lyrics remains firmly intact, while prominent live shows have seen them supporting the likes of Inhaler and even The Rolling Stones at their huge 2022 Hyde Park shows.

But all of it, the band say, has been leading to this: the start of a new era that will beckon in their anticipated second album, Make It Up.

A very welcome return, then, for one of Britain’s most inventive bands, starting a new chapter afresh that builds on the brilliance of their first outing and takes it to a new level entirely. 2024, it’s fair to say, is ready for FEET to stomp all over it.

See FEET: Make It Up at The Brickyard in Carlisle.

For further information visit www.thebrickyardonline.com

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