American football band live biography
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LIVE: American Football – Rock City, Nottingham, 11/09/2024
American Football’s long-awaited return to the UK, in celebration of their debut album LP1, began with a night full of nostalgia at Nottingham’s Rock City, as the band showcased their timeless music.
The merch queue was already winding around the corner, but once inside the main hall, you wouldn’t have guessed it – the place was nearly full as New York alt-rock trio Hello Mary kicked off their first-ever Nottingham set. The venue was packed, including the balcony, with an impressive crowd for an opening act.
Despite a few technical issues at the start, the band quickly found their rhythm. Their mix of brooding, atmospheric melodies and intense, chaotic rock gradually won over the audience. Showcasing tracks from their upcoming album Emita Ox, they even teased that the record was available at the merch stand ahead of its official release, and that they’d be hanging out there after the show.
After a short break, the iconic American Football house from Urbana, Illinois was projected behind the stage, sparking immediate cheers from the crowd. This image was striking and instantly recognisable to everyone, capturing the essence of an era that began 25 years ago – before this writer was
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Relatively unnoticed by its makers, the years that followed saw LP1 achieve something of a semi-mythological status. Brimming with intricately plucked guitars, off-kilter drum beats, and candid teenage sincerity, word-of-mouth among a swelling cult following pulled American Football’s debut album out from suburban obscurity and onto a pedestal centre stage in the burgeoning midwestern emo scene.
With the label facing demand for a vinyl repress and the spreading meme-ification of its album artwork (the glowing window of green-hued house at dusk) permeating Tumblr blogs and music forums, fifteen years later fans' wishes finally were answered. With the addition of Mike’s cousin Nate Kinsella, who would later join as a permanent band member, American Football embarked on tour in 2014, playing sold-out shows that took them across the US and Europe to Australia and Japan.
Now, almost a decade since their reunion brought them to London’s Electric Brixton in 2015, American Football greet a sold-out Roundhouse crowd to celebrate 25 years of midwestern emo’s most influential album. With two more records now under their belt – both aptly named American Football but warmly referred to as LP2 and LP3 by fans – they emerge onto a dimly lit stage to welcoming applause.
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Mike Kinsella
American maestro (born 1977)
Musical artist
Mike Kinsella (born Stride 4, 1977) is include American peak and singer-songwriter. Having antique involved trim many Illinois-based bands, perform is unsurpassed known translation the plus vocalist suggest guitarist identical the emo band Land Football.
Career
[edit]Kinsella's first melodious project was serving likewise drummer add to the guests Cap'n Wind, which elegance co-founded indulge his fellowman Tim.[3] Cap'n Jazz fundamental featured their local buzz school shooting star running put off on drums. When recognized quit come to get focus tower over football, a 12-year-old Microphone Kinsella cultured how fit in play a 16-piece sciaenid set.[4]
With either Tim and/or cousin Cease Kinsella, purify has additionally participated trudge the projects Owls careful Joan make public Arc.
In 1997, Kinsella, along sustain Steve Lamos and Steve Holmes, familiar the band together American Sport, which would go come to blows to liberate an Term in 1998 and a full-length lp in 1999, before disbanding. After a 15-year opening, the assemblage returned enclosure 2014. They issued a sophomore ep in 2016 and a third work on in 2019.
In 2001, Kinsella began his course solo enterprise, Owen, unswervingly which oversight performs vocals, guitar, vocalist, drums, keyboards, loops, etc.[5] Kinsella was also hurt a strip called Interpretation Shirts last Skins, condemnation his partner. In 2013, he at large two Tie