So Reel Big Fish have left the UK, for a few months anyway. They will be back in May for SlamDunk festival.

I headed down from Birmingham to the last show of the UK leg of the tour in Southampton. I managed to bag a photo pass for the show thanks to Jenn Ringrose and Mr Dan Reagan. The photos from the gig are included below. This was the first time taking photos at a gig. It isn’t as easy as it looks I can tell you, especially with 10+ people in the photo pit at once. Photos of the support bands can be seen on my Flickr. I had great fun as usual.

I met Suzie from New Reviews, who has done a great write up of Reel Big Fish’s last evening in the UK for this tour. This includes a write up for each of the support bands, New Riot, The Skints and Suburban Legends and pretty much sums up the night. You can read it by clicking here.

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Next up… SlamDunk!

Last night Reel Big Fish hit London for their London gig of the 20th Anniversary tour. Unfortunately I missed the show and by the sounds of it, it was a cracker.

The Good Review has posted a review of the show last night, you can read the full review here. A snippet of the review is included below.

In the middle of the concert there was a ten minute mess around period with the song ‘SU’ where they demonstrated that if they wanted to dip their toes into different genres and write different songs they could, easily, but they followed it up witha quick blast of ’Another F. U.’ with its chorus of “fuck everything, but fuck you the most!” which clearly demonstrated that these very talented musicians are making the music they want to make and the adoring crowd proved they are making it well. The sound system was blasting with wonderful music. Stand out songs included ‘Everthing Sucks’, ‘She has a Girlfriend Now’ and the ever brilliant ‘Beer’, the band seemed happy, the music was happy, the dancing was happy and the crowd left very happy. The Reel Big Fish came, saw and conquered and I say that was good.

Photo taken by Jeremy Snell.

Indemusicnews.com has posted a recorded interview with Aaron and Ryland while they are over here touring the UK. They discuss how they choose the set list, favourite songs, cover songs as well as highlights of the past 20 years.

Listen to it using the player below.

A review has been posted from the Manchester Academy gig last night, written by Caitlin Maxwell from Hive Magazine.

A snippet of the review is included below. You can read the rest of the review on Hive Magazine.

They played an astounding 23 songs and the crowd never tired for a moment during any of it! They pull funny faces, do funny stunts and tell hilarious jokes whilst on stage and it was more than entertaining.

Caitlin Maxwel

A gallery of Caitlin’s Reel Big Fish photos is included below. Check out Caitlin’s Flickr for more photos, these include photos of the support bands Suburban Legends & The Skints.

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