The Oxford music scene was really small then (and still is really) - you saw them, the young knives, some of supergrass, some of the harry potter cast all the time in bars, shops etc. and Florence Pugh although she was about a fiver year old running around her parents cocktail bar hahaha
foals were into electronic music too so they were at a lot of the club nights/after parties we went to. They were only 19-22 or so back then, roughly the same age as me at the time.
Well I pretty much stopped listening to them when I stopped getting to see them for free tbh hahaha. I never really liked them loads, they played at a club called 'the cellar' (now closed) loads, and it was just an underground cellar and they just played anywhere and sometimes a few times a night so the atmosphere was pretty good, despite sweat dripping off the ceiling, with dj's in between. The same 100 people in th club each time
They started to get a bit more 'serious' after their first album I think, and I was mainly into electronic music at that time so just lost interest. They moved away from Cowley road in Oxford too.