Tour

The Pineapple Thief - Live at the Joiners Arms, Southampton

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The Pineapple Thief hit the stage at The Joiners Arms in Southampton last night to play the last gig of their Winter 2011 UK tour. Throughout the tour, the band has been previewing new material which will appear on their next studio album, due out in September 2012. The band will enter the studio next month to record the album, and the first single from the as of yet untitled album will be released in July. In Southampton, the band were in top form as they tore through a stellar setlist of brand new and previously released songs. The band’s setlist was mostly comprised of material from their latest studio album ‘Someone Here Is Missing’, with ‘Wake Up The Dead’ being used as the opening piece. After playing ’3000 Days’ and ‘Preparation for Meltdown’ the band moved on to play some newer material, with a new song called ‘Stop Struggling’. Upon hearing the newer material for the first time, it seemed that the band has chosen to move their sound into a slightly heavier direction.

The Pineapple Thief afterwards took it back to 2008?s ‘Tightly Unwound’ with the beautiful album opener ‘My Debt To You’. Now halfway into their set, the band alternated between new and older songs, including ‘Snowdrops’ from the band’s album ‘Little Man’ which was released in 2006. The band encouraged the audience to clap in time towards the climax of the song, which I personally felt was a highlight of the entire evening. Time flew by as the band played into the later hours of the evening, and ended with the epic 14 minute ‘Too Much To Lose‘ from ‘Tightly Unwound‘. After a rapturous applause, the band then came back on stage for a one track encore to perform ‘Nothing at Best‘. Bruce Soord thanked the audience consistently throughout the show, along with mentioning that the band’s next album will be released on Kscope in September 2012, after they’ve have time to enter the studio and record it in the earlier stages of the year.

Overall, The Pineapple Thief proved they are a live act not to be missed, and that they’ve certainly got an exciting future ahead of them.

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