Londoners Magazine

Feeder have announced a one-off show next week at the Proud Galleries in Camden.

The gig on 12 June, dubbed as “intimate” by other news providers, will be the smallest gig the band have played in a decade. The Proud Galleries’ capacity is 400, and the band will play a 40 minute set.

The band did consider giving members of the crowd, in blocks of 40 (followed by another 40, and then the next 40, and then the next 40, until all ten 40’s were satisfied) 4 minutes of Feeder each, but the move was considered pretentious, despite the entertaining maths.

Tickets are £6 for the show which promises to be a far cry from Feeder’s usual slot, half way down a festival line-up.

Londoners is loathe to admit that the gig’s size could be a reflection on Feeder’s dwindling record sales and ageing fan base, preferring to think of it as the first gig they will play to promote Silent Cry, their sixth record in 16 years, out on 16 June. The album will will be preceded by a single, “We are the People” on 9 June.

Grant Nicholas, Feeder’s lead singer, definitely did not say: “Playing somewhere like the Proud Gallery is a good way to appear cool, persuade naive kids to come and see us play, and hide the fact that we are currently struggling in the miserable Welsh housewife market because of the rise of bands like Coldplay and Keane.”

Welshman Nicholas, guitarist Taka Hirose and drummer Mark Richardson are playing the Isle of Wight, T in the Park, Reading and Leeds and Oxegen festivals this summer.