Temples - Live Review

Temples - Riverside, Newcastle (11/12/14)

Callum Thornhill

Headlining Newcastle's Riverside, Temples brought their modern psychedelic tunes to the north east.

This was the final date of two years of touring including festivals and of course they had to go out with a bang.

Supported by Superfood and Klaus Johan Grobe, it was always going to be an amazing night of music.

Sun Restructured was recently released as a 'remix' of debut LP Sun Structures and the announcement of the tour was imminent.

The hits from Sun Structures were fused together beautifully with a live backdrop from San Francisco's very own Mad Alchemy.

Gracefully playing through the likes of Move With The Season, Keep In The Dark, and Sand Dance, the crowd was jumping around. I thought it would be chilled out...

To my surprise/delight 'Ankh' was played by the band, one of their very best tracks. Much less surprising though was Shelter Song being the song that Temples closed with.

 By 'close with' I mean before the encore.

This encore was Mesmerise being played with an extended outro that seemed to last an eternity - no complains though.

I for one would love to see Temples again, after meeting the band before the gig too I discovered that they are all humble people and very modest.

A marvellous night indeed.