The Boiler Shop was rocked on Saturday night as Shame brought their raucous live show to Newcastle.
Touring their new album, ‘Food For Worms’, which was released last week, Shame played a varying set which encompassed tracks from all three of their releases to date.
Recent singles ‘Fingers of Steel’, ‘Six Pack’ and ‘Adderall’ were all received well from the crowd, with ‘Adderall’ in particular a highlight quickly gaining fan favourite status.
As always, the band brought the energy, with frontman Charlie Steen doing an excellent job of working with the crowd, eventually joining them throughout a number of tracks.
‘Tasteless’, ‘Snow Day’ and ‘Orchid’ were personal highlights demonstrating the band’s versatility, as well as the quality of the band’s back catalogue, which has only been strengthened with the recent release of ‘Food For Worms’.
Steen even brought out his cousin Tom before the end of the show to introduce a track before engaging in some Newcastle related quips with the crowd.
‘One Rizla’ as expected set the crowds alight with mosh pits aplenty and proved worth the wait. The show was concluded with ‘Food For Worms’ closer, ‘All The People’ and ‘Gold Hole’, which ended the show fittingly with the crowd demanding more.
Support came from Florida based duo ‘They Hate Change’, who warmed the crowd up well with their electronic, hip hop fusion which gave a different flavour to the show bringing a welcome change from the usual support acts for an indie/post punk show.
Overall, this was a great time, watching a band, who are still pushing musically and reaching even greater heights both on record and in person.
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