Shame touring Food For Worms at the London Troxy (Adam Hampton-Matthews for Live4ever)
Shame played the Troxy on April 28th.
Shame were in London last Friday night as part of the live work behind this year’s Food For Worms LP – an album which kept the band, ‘on the edge of a horizon only they can seem to see‘, according to Live4ever’s review:
The messages get starker but the relationships more complex, as on Alibis where Steen coldly observes, ‘I let my friends rise above me/And then I let them fall’, whilst the song drags through a maze of recrimination and lyrical feints, all in the space of just over two-and-a-half minutes.
“There’s a lot going on here under this album’s many surfaces, but most of what this is will need to be figured out by you.”
“At times there’s a necessary degree of forgiveness too: recorded as live, the songs here are feeding off an energy that comes in real life from being in proximity to an audience, nose-to-nose.”