Not many bands have the ability to impart on a gig a festival atmosphere but that is exactly what Fun did when they brought their show to Leeds.
The American band started in 2008 but it wasn’t until they released their second album Some Nights and the lead single We Are Young filtered onto radios that Fun’s spirited pop was brought to the masses.
Lead singer Nate Ruess commands attention as he dashes around the stage, his presence a mixture between Rufus Wainright, Mika and Freddie Mercury just without the flamboyant dress sense. He is one of those frontmen that draws your focus and you find yourself not being able to look away from him.
The only instrument he uses throughout the gig is his voice so he is able to move swiftly around the stage and by the end of the gig he must have covered every inch of the floor but still looks like he has the energy to run a marathon. His vocal ability is extraordinary; a male hasn’t reached and sustained such high notes since Danny Zuko in Grease.
The set feels like it is over before it has begun as the songs are so well crafted that there isn’t a moment where you aren’t carried along by the anthemic tracks. The tracks are filled with upbeat sentiments and empowering lyrics that prompts the sense of inclusion that you don’t get with my many gigs where everyone in that room at that moment is feeling the same thing.
Where the festival spirit is really evident is during the encore of We Are Young when the entire audience is on their feet, arms raised above their heads as the band round off a motivating and energetic gig.
Published in Yorkshire Evening Post
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