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The term “Reunion Show” has been spouted about all to regularly on the music radar, not matter what genre it seems, but For fightstar, this is not your average “comeback tour” or to finish out a high, but more a celebration of what they created.
The set kicks off in fitting celebratory fashion, with cuts from their debut album - opening with'Paint Your Target', 'Grand Unification Part One' and 'War Machine'.
“We wanted to celebrate 10 years of this band, and to thank you all so much for your support” frontman Charlie Simpson humbly states to the packed crowd. The timeline of the set fast-forwards next through the band's second album One Day Son This Will All Be Yours, with a rapturous sing-alongs for tracks '99' and 'English Way'. By the passionately strong connection displayed by the crowd, it feels eerily like it was back in 2005.
Next, the band introduces Simpson’s brother Will to take up guitar duties whilst big brother takes full throttle vocals for heavier numbers 'Deathcar' and 'Tannhauser Gate'. The flux capacitor must’ve been on full as we’re taken further back to the band's first EP for 'Sleep Well Tonight' and 'Palahniuks’s Laughter', confessed by the frontman as one of his personal favourites.
“Do you guys want a secret?” questions Simpson to Brixton Academy, which receives an instantaneous 'YES' reply. “We’ll be making more music this year so look out for us very soon!”
The crowd erupts into euphoria for this, to which in a fitting end to the night's celebration is again another track of their debut album for the final track 'Mono'. With the past given the send off it truly deserved, Fightstar are clearly looking forward and not back, we can only wait in eagerness of what they have next up their sleeve.
