O2 Victoria Warehouse, October 16th: The Wigan band celebrates their continued rise with a packed half-homecoming show
When Alex Moore, the lead singer of The Lathums, gazed at the raised forest of mobile phone flashlights, flashing with the bonfire single "I will never forget the time I spent with you", he Apparently it was a shock. "It's enough to make a real man cry," he said.
You can forgive him for sounding emotional: this sold-out semi-back to school (upgraded to a larger 3,500 capacity venue due to demand) is the latest milestone in the incredible year for the Wigan band. In the past 12 months, they have seen their first album "How Beautiful Life Can Be" produced by James Skelly, taking Drake from the top 40 in September, playing against 5,000 people at Selfon Park in Liverpool, helping Saved their local team Wigan Athletic (he defeated Bolton Wanders in today's derby-this is what he yelled on stage) and won Paul Weller, Elton John and Cheers from Tim Burgess.
As Moore said, “dress well for special occasions,” the quartet made strides towards The Housemartins’ “Caravan of Love”, and The Lathums was in the same vibrant fashion as Paul Heaton’s knitwear lovers in the 1980s. Shuttle in the music. They are a typical people's band, warmly welcomed by the oversized "THE LATUMS" flag and terrace chants, reminiscent of the crumbling retro gold rush in the mid-2000s, and the unpretentiousness of the Arctic Monkeys, The Courteeners and The Courteeners The independent national anthem of the guitar debauchery.
Their friends once described them as being similar to "the middleman in a Shane Meadows movie." They feel like the approachable group that a 15-year-old child sees on stage and thinks "I can do it", and at the same time enough Eternally appeal to countless dads in the crowd.
Starting with "Fight On," supported by Scott Concepcion’s slender Johnny Marr-style guitar improvisation, each song is treated as an encore, like a friendly fire of thrown plastic pints in the air Soaring, the boys wore Lathums brand bucket hats and climbed on each other's shoulders. A vibrant indie pop music was only partially broken by three songs, Moore played solo and was blinded by the spotlight, directing the stinging soundtrack "How Beautiful Life Can Be" (co-authored by his mother), "I will always "I will never forget the time I spent with you" and "My life" are full of melody and our embrace against the world.
"You all sing like angels," he praised. The rest of the equipment (completed by bassist Johnny Cunliffe and drummer Ryan Durance) rejoined his "Circle of Belief" Smith Disco, while fans sang the unreleased pop "Sad Every word of "Face Baby" (with the bass line) deserves to be returned to them by Peter Hook of the New Order, although it can only be provided as a granular YouTube lens.
"I see your ghost" influenced by ska feels like the revenge of landfill indie music The crimes of major newspapers and fashion makers) after years of snobbery dismissal, and a large number of golden ticker tapes to predict "Sonic Beauty's Redemption" and "artificial screens." The latter is a protest against smartphones-although the irony is that tonight’s show is so crowded that the only way for anyone close to the backstage to see anything on the stage is to point the screen upward like a periscope. Watch through them.
If it weren't for the couple in front of me who viciously argued over how to pronounce their names (the case of divorce proceedings: it was La-thums, not Lay-thums), you would easily forget how fast they were rising. When Moore was immersed in compliments and smiles, "Thank you, I wake up happy every day now", you can't help but agree with the football carol of "Up The Lathums!"
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