Feeder play their 1997 debut album, Polythene, over two nights at the Electric Ballroom in Camden, ahead of the album’s 30th anniversary.
Feeder, the Welsh band behind “Buck Rogers”, play their 1997 debut, Polythene, at the Electric Ballroom in Camden on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 December 2026.
Grant Nicholas and drummer Jon Lee formed the band in 1994. Taka Hirose, a Japanese graphic designer working in London, answered their advert for a bass player. They named the band after Nicholas’s pet goldfish.
Polythene came out on 19 May 1997. Its single “High” gave them their first UK top 40 hit, and the album went gold slowly, over the next twenty years.
Echo Park followed in 2001, and its lead single reached the UK top five. The band has since sold more than a million albums in Britain. Black/Red, released in 2024, was their fifth top 10 album in a row.
A remastered and expanded edition of Polythene marks the album’s 30th anniversary. On Wednesday 16 December the band support The Darkness at The O2 arena. In Camden, two nights later, they headline a room of their own with the record that started them.