Reel Good Live (Reel Big Fish in general)

Member Name: GodToldMeTo

Product:	Reel Big Fish in general
Date:	18/03/02 (51 review reads)
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Advantages: quality ska, fun covers

Disadvantages: support sum 41

I recently went to Manchester Apollo to see the mediocre sum 41 and the support act was somewhat of a contradiction. What I mean is, they didn't support, they carried. This band was, REEL BIG FISH.

The south Californian ska outfit, which followed in the mainstream success of fellow ska bands No Doubt and Sublime were incredible and did nothing less than shame the teeny boppers, Sum 41. Reel Big Fish showed them how to be quality entertainers and fantastic musicians. After only recently becoming a ska fan I was overjoyed to find the fish were supporting sum. The band was wasted on the crowd, the majority being nothing more than, 'fat lip' fans. What I mean by this is person who hears one song by a mainstream success and decide it’s their new favourite band. As you are guessing, yes these people were around ten.

The coolest guy in punk rock is Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day but if I was asked to comprise a top ten list (which I very may well do next, check it out) I would definitely put Aaron Barrett, guitarist from the fish way up there.

He was a true entertainer, talking to the crowd, introducing his songs, even spitting on a linkin park shirt someone had thrown into the crowd and not needing to say the eff word every other sentence, unlike some, or rather sum. Showing off his guitar skills to such an extent that he played the same one song in the style of blues, disco (which sounded phemoniminal), country and western and even death metal. Predictably the pit when crazy and this point, the ten year olds must be unfamiliar with the Reel Big Fish song, Thank You For Not Moshing.

Paying the majority of their 45-minute set with songs from the underground ska 1995 hit, Everything Sucks and finishing with Kerrang favourite Sell Out. I think at this point I saw a few people mouthing to the lyrics but whether they were right or not, I don't know.

If this band every comes your way, see them you'll en
joy it, don't see sum 41 though. They're pretty damn terrible.

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