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  Alt-rockers Maxïmo Park wrapped up their latest UK tour in their home base of Newcastle with the second of two shows at the O2 Academy. The band have been touring in support of their fifth studio album "Too Much Information" - a genuine candidate for ugliest album cover of the year, which is a shame because the album represents something of a return to form after 2012's disappointing "National Health" which was released in the darkest depths of the recession. The new album sees an increased reliance on beats and electronics but singer and writer Paul Smith remains a poetic, romantic lyricist and Duncan Lloyd a seriously underrated and melodic guitarist. The tour got off to something of a bad start with a couple of shows having to be rescheduled due to Smith requiring an emergency eye operation, but to his credit he soldiered on even though this meant that his stage presence wasn't quite as animated and acrobatic as normal. It also provided a rare case of a rock star wearing sunglasses on stage through necessity rather than affectation. Opening with a fine trio of songs - the catchy "Give, Get, Take" from the new album, "Our Velocity" and "Signal & Sign" - the band soon got into their rhythm, with Lukas Wooller pogoing around his keyboard while Smith in trademark trilby, shades and check-suit struck a series of camera pleasing poses and even demonstrated some sub-Peter Crouch style robotics for the crowd crushed against the barrier. Although the new material such as "Brain Cells", the terrific "Midnight On The Hill" and "Leave This Island" was greeted enthusiastically, it was the songs from the first two albums “Our Earthly Pleasures” and “A Certain Trigger” that got the adrenalin pumping quickest and the biggest crowd responses. Old favourites like "Graffiti", "Limassol", "Books From Boxes", "By The Monument" (always popular in Newcastle, where the Academy is only a few hundreds yard from said monument), "Girls Who Play Guitars" and a tremendous version of "Apply Some Pressure" received wild responses. Some of the better songs on “National Health” were also performed such as the title track and “The Undercurrents”. A few years ago I saw Maxïmo Park play to a packed crowd at Newcastle Arena - where they even flirted with lasers - and it seemed for a time that they might be lost to the bigger sheds which would have been a shame. Venues like the Academy are the perfect place for the band - Smith is a genuinely likeable frontman easily capable of whipping up a crowd of this size. The band relate to their audience well, and it would be a shame to see this relationship diluted in bigger arenas. “The Park” always a deliver a passionate performance and Saturday night’s tour finale was no exception.

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• If you’ve not seen Maximo Park play live since their heyday - which, depending on who you ask, was either around the time of their superb debut, A Certain Trigger, or its 2007 follow-up, Our Earthly Pleasures - then I can report that reassuringly little has changed; frontman Paul Smith is still persisting with his dazzlingly loud suit and bowler hat combos, regardless of the weather, he’s still doing that daft scissors kick at every opportunity, and the band themselves continue to rip through their sets as if they have genuinely no idea that this kind of frenetic, angular guitar music has long since gone out of fashion. To their credit, they’ve taken stabs at tinkering with their sound - on 2012’s The National Health, they were noisier, and more aggressive - but if their recent support slot to Pixies at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl is anything to go by, it’s the classics that are getting them by, and to be fair, they’re still delivering them as if they were written yesterday. ‘Apply Some Pressure’ remains the firmest fan favourite, but for my money, the brilliantly diverse ‘Our Velocity’ is the high watermark; if they can write a few more songs like that, they might yet be able to bring bac the glory days.

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  por Joeg_67

• Quite simply still one of the best bands to see live. Think last night was my 9th! They get better every time.the energy levels never drop and they give everything to each performance. Although I always look like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards as it's like a workout!!

  The band are so polite and really nice guys as have spoken to Lukas and Paul before. They just want to make music for people to dance and they always succeed.

  The venue was great as small places are alaways more intimate, also the staff there are probably some of the most helpful and nice that I've come across.

  With their new record being so fantastic this is sure to be a winner with fans old or new to their music.

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  por heather-reid-4

• This was the first time I have seen Maximo Park but have been a fan for many years, as soon as they came on right until their last song they were amazing. Played all their classic songs as well as some new ones! The venue was excellent and the atmosphere was electric. Can't wait until next time.

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  por Worlock69

• Maximo Park amazing band brilliant live & they were so thankfull for everyone going to there show in the liquid room Edinburgh 24th May 2019 interaction with the crowd was great saw a few bands now & it's been last song & away they went not them i appreciated that very much

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  por Pauline69-10

• Had a great time. Would happily recommend them. Some who I went with hadn't heard them before but by the end had really enjoyed themselves. The whole place went mad when they played Apply Some Pressure as an encore. Good blend of the old & new material.

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  por Gazmod

• Best in the business - energetic, friendly. Back catalogue sounds great, and the debut album in full was a real treat. Mon the Park. Roundhouse is always a great venue too.

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