5/08/12 Set Your Goals/Mixtapes/Eager Teeth
The Craufurd Arms located in Wolverton, Milton Keynes regularly plays intimate host to some of the best punk bands from all over the world. Set Your Goals recently brought their upbeat pop punk to the UK with new friends Mixtapes.
Brighton based Eager Teeth hit the stage after local support and warm the crowd with some great sounding tracks including 'Lights Out'. Exposure as the favourite band of 'Dougie from Mcfly' may not be ideal, but touring with the likes of SYG and playing festivals this summer will be.
Mixtapes highly anticipated and first trip to England didn't disappoint. A mixture of one minute 'Maps' songs, and longer melodies from brand new album 'Even On The Worst Nights' delivered a perfect set from the grateful Americans. Even though they can't believe people go to gigs to watch their band, they should start getting used to it as their fanbase will be rapidly increase after this tour.
A lot of critics claim that Set Your Goals never lived up to the hype they earned from 'Mutiny!' but they surely can't find fault with their energetic live show. The band clearly loved every second of this set, playing songs spanning their whole career from 'Goonies Never Say Die!' to latest single 'The Last American Virgin'. Sure, the 'Mutiny!' tracks see more sing a longs from the crowd, but the hour and a quarter fly by with no filler material in sight. Finishing proceedings with half the fans filling the stage [with one in particular showing her feelings for the band when presented with the microphone to sing a long and just bursting out 'I Love You'], Set Your Goals show that pop punk doesn't come any better or more fun than this.
9/10
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