"cement" - feeder

"i'm in quicksand sinking in again. i've got concrete shoes and i can't swim"


i love this song. it reminds me of why i used to be a fan of feeder. a combination of melody and power. a summery sort of pain. when he sings "how can i stop this?" it meant something to me. buck rogers leaves me cold.
but they've been disappointing me for a long time. when i saw them live, just before the rerelease of polythene, they were quite good but what i remember most of their set was the disappointment of the songs everyone wanted them to play but they didn't - how could they not play tangerine for example.
actually what i remember most from that gig is just how fantastic tampasm were in support. they looked great, they wore plastic devil horns, they played hard fast and tight, i moshed like a mentalist, some guy jumped on my head when i went down, i got back up and they were still rocking, they played glorified vibrator - they deserved to be much much bigger than they were.
oh and it was this gig where i spilled the beer of a music journalist, and he made me buy him another and then when he realised that meant i had no money to buy my own he said i could have as much of it as i could down in one - i was terrified i was about to hurl on his feet.

it was also on the way home from that gig that i experienced the man on the tube with the pizza hut balloon who killed rock, the saddest molko-wannabe i've ever seen and the drunk guys who thought it was hilarious to say "what rhymes with bank" over and over again.