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Maximo Park at Bingley Music Live 2017 WE have been starved of most meaningful live music now for over a year. But there is, now, at least light at the end of the tunnel as bands tentatively pencil in dates for later this year. They include one of the country’s best live acts: Maxïmo Park, who have announced a show at the O2 Academy Oxford on September 2 – and a new album out this weekend. The Geordie indie-rockers are no strangers to Oxford, having raucously played the Academy and, famously, the debating hall of the Oxford Union back in 2007. “I remember a great, sweaty night when we last played at Oxford Academy!” laughs frontman Paul Smith.
Fewer laws present themselves more accurately in music than that of diminishing returns.
Whether the times change, they change or both parties just agree to see other people, the list of outfits who’ve never topped their debut album is a lot longer than the one made up of artists who figured it all out much later in their careers.
Of course, there are some obvious exceptions: John, Paul, George and Ringo come to mind, while as a modern for instance, the Manic Street Preachers, who survived a couple of atypically pallid outings around the turn of the millennium before subsequently rediscovering much of their old hunger.