Weezer
The Piece Corridor, Halifax
thirtieth June 2025
The indie rock legends lead an evening of pointed nostalgia in Calderdale.
Dying, taxes and Rivers Cuomo trying impossibly younger: some issues by no means change. The lead singer of Weezer continues to seem unmarked by the passing of time – and he sounds it, too. Unusually for a band as relentlessly prolific as Weezer – they’ve launched fifteen studio albums – they haven’t any new file to advertise, having put out no new full-lengths since 2021’s pair of LPs, OK Human and Van Weezer.
The truth that they’ve bought out the Piece Corridor on their first go to to Halifax, although, is testomony to their enduring attraction. You get the sense that even the band themselves know that they may by no means high their 1994 debut, informally generally known as The Blue Album, so it’s no shock to see it dominate the setlist tonight, with 9 of its ten songs aired. It reminds us what a various file is; there’s the hovering, anthemic My Identify Is Jonas, which is dispatched early on, in addition to the indie pop buzz of Vacation and Surf Wax America and an enormous singalong impressed by Undone – The Sweater Tune.
There’s loads of post-1994 materials sprinkled in too, and maybe most fun for Weezer diehards is that 5 tracks from their different masterpiece, 1996’s Pinkerton, make the lower. It’s an album they’ve usually been surprisingly reticent about delving too deep into stay, so to listen to the noisy and abrasive likes of Why Hassle?, Getchoo and The Good Life fired off with such gusto is an actual thrill. They continue to be a terrifically tight and refreshingly no-frills stay outfit, ripping by the again catalogue at tempo; the tempo is about early on by an enormous, riff-heavy Hash Pipe, after which stored up by the big-hitting likes of Island within the Solar and Pork and Beans.
There may be additionally a bit of little bit of traditional Weezer silliness, even when they do play their stay reveals far straighter as of late than they used to; Beverly Hills is an irresistible singalong, even when Cuomo’s change of the lyrics to “dwelling in Halifax, England” for the ultimate line doesn’t fairly slip as easily off the tongue. The 20-song most important set concludes with an epic, sprawling Solely in Goals, the nearer from The Blue Album that comes alive spectacularly. It’s a testomony to what number of real hits the Californians have that they’ve nonetheless saved their greatest two final; large singalongs greet each Say It Ain’t So and Buddy Holly. Who is aware of what Weezer’s subsequent studio transfer will probably be, however they might commerce off the again catalogue endlessly – a Weezer present is as near a assured good time as you will get.
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Phrases by Joe Goggins: discover him on X right here
Images by Adam Edwards. You’ll find Adam at his web site, Instagram and Fb
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