Animals Collected: Backstage Photos of Foals and Cage the Elephant
This week, indie darlings Foals and Cage the Elephant played two high-energy sets at New York's Terminal 5, and both bands gave Rolling Stone full backstage access, allowing Sacha Lecca to capture everything from the pre-set preparations to Cage singer Matt Shultz's massive stage dive and its painful aftermath. Photos and captions by Sacha Lecca.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca Jimmy Smith, Jack Bevan and Edwin Congreave of Foals backstage shortly before their set.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca While waiting to go on, Foals' Jimmy Smith takes Yannis Philippakis' cigarette at the stage door.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca Philippakis reflects for a moment before walking onstage.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca Philippakis hits the Terminal 5 stage.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca Jimmy Smith and Philippakis.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca Philippakis surfing the crowd.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca Waiting to go on, Cage the Elephant singer Matt Shultz slowly moves and dances up and down the hall behind the stage.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca At the stage door, Cage the Elephant's Brad Shultz, carrying three beers, is jovial. His brother Matt seems more in his own space and very focused.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca Cage the Elephant kick off their set.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca Brad Shultz in the pit with fans who try either to embrace him or grab a photo.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca Matt Shultz after one of many stage dives in a tug of war between fans and security.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca Matt Shultz, mid-jump.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca Matt Shultz being supported by fans near the end of the show.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca Fans reaching out to Matt Shultz in the photo pit.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca Matt Shultz braces for his final leap into the crowd.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca Geronimo! Matt Shultz continues his leap into the sea of fans.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca Matt Shultz slowly makes his way to the backstage area after an exhausting set.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca Brad Shultz of Cage the Elephant (center) at the end of the night with Jimmy Smith (left) and Jack Bevan of Foals.
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Image Credit: Sacha Lecca Matt Shultz backstage, winces from leap off the balcony: "It was a lot higher than it looked".