Live Review
The View
@ Welly, Hull
22nd October 08
After a year’s absence, The View mark their return with a grueling tour of the smaller venues across England. Despite being dubbed by many as ‘one hit wonders’ after the ridiculous success of Same Jeans, tonight Welly is still heaving with a rowdy and enthusiastic crowd. The new single 5Rebeccas seems to have evoked a new faith in the masses that The View shouldn’t be forgotten just yet.
The room erupts as The View lumber on stage sporting unruly hairstyles and the heavily Scottish greeting of “You al’right you crazy bastards?!’” As they launch into their set the floor moves and bodies fly, the biggest reaction of course being to Same Jeans and the storming Wasted Little DJs that ends the set. Previously unheard songs such as Jimmy’s Crazy Conspiracy go down well and promise a new album that certainly won’t disappoint.
The flaw in this performance however, is that the crowd contributes much more to the atmosphere of the gig than the band do. The singer and lead guitarist do attempt to interact with the crowd on several occasions, but soon discover that in Hull, quickly spoken Scottish over a noisy crowd isn’t easily understood. The View play a competent collection of songs and look like they are thoroughly enjoying themselves, but somehow still manage to look like your mates band doing one of their first gigs in the local pub. This serves as a reminder perhaps, a short realization in that The View are still very young.
Although they don’t receive much banter and response from the stage, the crowd is clearly very appreciative of what they’ve been given. Between each song and during a ‘technical difficulty’ the united chant of “The View, The View, The View are on fire!” thunders throughout the room. To complete their live shows The View may need a renewed confidence and a more casual crowd interaction, but this performance and their new material proves that we haven’t seen the last of them.
Harriet Shephard
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