On This Day 02/10/2013 Funeral For A Friend

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On this day, 2 October 2013, Welsh post-hardcore band Funeral For A Friend played Cardiff University.

The band from Bridgend, formed in 2001 and currently consists of Matthew Davies-Kreye (lead vocals), Kris Coombs-Roberts (guitar, backing vocals), Gavin Burrough (guitar, backing vocals), Darran Smith (guitar), Richard Boucher (bass), and Ryan Richards (drums, vocals).

Funeral for a Friend's popularity rose in the United Kingdom with the release of their debut album, Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation (2003). Achieving both a gold certification and three top-twenty singles in their home country, Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation is often acclaimed as one of the landmark emo records of the 2000s.

Earlier in 2013 the band released their sixth studio album Conduit. . It was released on 28 January 2013 in the UK and 5 February 2013 in the United States. This is the band's first release with former Rise to Remain drummer Pat Lundy, who replaced long-term drummer and vocalist Ryan Richards during the album's production.

Throughout the recording of the album the band released several teaser videos that showed the recording of individual instruments

On this day 22/07/2010 Funeral For A Friend/The Automatic

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On this day, 22 July 2010, Welsh bands The Automatic and Funeral For A Friend played Cardiff University Funeral For A Friend were on their Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation Tour.

REVIEW - BUZZ - FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND + THE AUTOMATIC + YOUNG GUNS

Solus, Cardiff Students’ Union, Cardiff

Thurs 22 July

Subtitled Saying Goodbye to Darran Smith, Thursday’s show at Solus proved to be a fitting send-off for the departing guitarist, with a celebration of the band’s work over the past eight years. Particular focus was given to early material, including the first performance of 2003’s debut album Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation in its entirety.

Indeed, there was an atmosphere of expectation amongst the excitable crowd, released in a mosh-pit frenzy when the band launched into opener Rookie of the Year. Despite the somewhat melancholy motive for the evening’s performance, frontman Matt Davies was in high spirits, with frequent jokes about the predictability of the setlist as well as several courageous stage-dives into a frantic sea of hands.

A brief interval was followed by the band’s return to the stage for 2007’s Into Oblivion (Reunion). The hits kept coming, with a ferocious rendition of latest single Wrench demonstrating a band that shows no sign of slowing down. Matt Tuck, vocalist from Bridgend contemporaries Bullet For My Valentine, joined the action onstage for a dual-vocal assault in fan favourite This Year’s Most Open Heartbreak, ahead of the bands’ joint European tour later this year.

2005 single History proved to be a fitting end to the evening, with the repeated refrain “your history is mine” echoed by Davies’ assertion that “Darran Smith will always be part of Funeral For A Friend”. Judging from tonight’s performance, the band has a lot of history yet to tell, albeit with one less storyteller.

Funeral For A Friend - Setlist

Rookie of the Year

Bullet Theory

Juneau

Bend Your Arms to Look Like Wings

Escape Artists Never Die

Storytelling

Moments Forever Faded

She Drove Me to Daytime Television

Red Is the New Black

Your Revolution Is a Joke

Waking Up

Novella

Encore:

Into Oblivion (Reunion)

The Art of American Football

Roses for the Dead

Wrench

Streetcar

You Want Romance?

This Year's Most Open Heartbreak

(with Matt Tuck)

History

The Automatic - Setlist

Recover

On the Campaign Trail

Interstate

This Is a Fix

Sleepwalking

Something Else

Run & Hide

Steve McQueen