Foals sign off for ‘eighteen months’ with Bestival headline gig


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Holy Fire‘, released in February 2013, set Foals off on a long journey to the status as festival headliners which was cemented at Bestival on the Isle Of Wight last weekend.

The band’s third studio album continued an evolution and critical appreciation which began in earnest with 2010’s ‘Total Life Forever‘, and was on show last Saturday (September 6th) as Foals topped Bestival along side Beck and Chic feat. Nile Rodgers. “This is the last show for about eighteen months,” frontman Yannis Philippakis is reported to have told the crowd.

Prelude‘ began the show as it began ‘Holy Fire’, while the other tracks played from the album were ‘My Number‘, ‘Providence‘, ‘Late Night‘ and ‘Inhaler‘.

Foals setlist (NME):

‘Prelude’
‘Miami’
‘Olympic Airways’
‘My Number’
‘Blue Blood’
‘Providence’
‘Spanish Sahara’
‘Red Socks Pugie’
‘Late Night’
‘Electric Bloom’
‘Hummer’
‘Inhaler’
‘Two Steps Twice’


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