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Barfly
Saturday 27 October
Mancunian space rockers Amplifier brought their collection of effects pedals to Barfly to create their wall of sound, prog influenced rock.
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Sorry we were only able to keep performance videos online for a week after the festival.
on the bbc
- 6 Music
- 6 Music hosted Amplifier as part of Bruce Dickinson's show
set list
- Beyond The Fragile Of Space (Part 1)
- Planet Of Insects
- Dogface Boy (Welcome To Graceland)
- Interstella
- Fall Of The Empire
what happened
Minute by minute report, via text message, by the BBC's James Cowdery
- 20.05 - Bruce Dickinson introduces Amplifier. First pair of devil's horns goes up from the crowd.
- 20.07 - No messing as Sel Belamir launches into the furious riff of...
- 20.10 - ...'Beyond The Fragile Geometry of Space' (not easy to text).
- 20.18 - 'Interstella' has an appropriately planet-sized intro and some glorious zoned out guitar shapes.
- 20.21 - There's some spaced out hairy dude at back who looks like he's been here since Hawkwind played here in '73. Far. Out.
- 20.23 - This is epic, mile-wide metal grooves mean some serious frugging breaks out.
- 20.29 - It's difficult to see how all this noise is coming out of Belamir's single Gibson SG guitar.
- 20.32 - Last song Fall of the Empire is galactic: space-rock beamed from Manchester to Camden via Alpha Centauri.
- 20.34 - Sel: "Thank you, Electric Proms, for injecting some class into our career!"
also at bbc electric proms
- Performed alongside Amplifier:
- Breed 77
- Other performances:
- Reverend and the Makers
- Hadouken
line-up
- Mark Ronson with special guests and the BBC Concert Orchestra
- Paul McCartney
- Kaiser Chiefs via David Arnold
- Bloc Party
- Ray Davies and friends
- Agaskodo Teliverek
- Amar
- Amplifier
- Battles
- Ben Westbeech
- Basquiat Strings
- The Beatles: Help!
- Blanche
- Bob Dylan: The Other Side of the Mirror
- Breed 77
- Charlie Louvin
- The Chemical Brothers
- Cold War Kids
- The Coral
- Daft Punk: Electroma
- Duke Special
- Durrty Goodz
- Editors
- Edwyn Collins
- The Enemy
- Estelle
- The Flaming Lips:
UFOs at the Zoo - Ghetto
- Hadouken!
- Justice
- Kano presents London Town
- Kid Harpoon
- Noah and the Whale
- Once in a Blue Moon:
A tribute to Lal Waterson - Maps
- The Metros
- New Cassettes
- Radio Luxembourg
- Reverend and the Makers
- The Riff Raff and Riz MC
- Sam Isaac
- Sigur Rós: Heima
- Siouxsie
- SOIL & "PIMP" SESSIONS with Jamie Cullum
- Taio Cruz
audience reviews
Jonny Austin
A hell of a set of all-new songs from the most underrated band in Britain - wonderful stuff from Sel and the boys.
Bentley Graham
A stunning sonic assault blitzed the Barfly courtesy of Amplifier.Individually each band member has mesmerising stage prescence and as a unit so tight, intense and solid.They launched an all new set for this BBC 6 Bruce Dickinson special which I strongly recommend you tune into next Friday. Wow!