![]() ![]() Rowsell grew up in Archway, London, without friends who shared her various musical obsessions. ![]() That the London four-piece have become comfortable enough with each other to explore such themes is an unlikely triumph. Even “Delicious Things”, Blue Weekend’s tale of popping pills in Los Angeles, is delivered with a sense of hesitancy: “The vibes are kinda wrong here / Scared to know just what goes on here,” sings Rowsell, who won’t be breaking any of Happy Mondays’ hedonism records any time soon. But in person Wolf Alice don’t act like the megastars they’re becoming: they’re low-key, self-deprecating, slightly tentative at times. We’re fucking big time!” says a grinning Theo Ellis). The room is dotted with signs of their recent success: a glossy magazine with them gracing the cover lies on the sofa (“Oh, how did that get there?” says guitarist Joff Oddie with a touch of embarrassment), while a gigantic -bottle of WKD Blue lurks in the corner (“That says it all. ![]() Instead their current live show is confined to a windowless rehearsal space in East London, where the band are beating their back catalogue into shape for a headline set at Latitude. It sounds perfectly engineered for festival headline slots – although, when we meet, the pandemic has prevented the band playing a single festival. Ethereal and expansive, it breezes through folk, punk and indie stylings with a touch of the Cocteau Twins and Kate Bush for good measure. Wolf Alice won their first Mercury Prize for sophomore album Visions Of A Life, 20 September 2018īut Blue Weekend is the work of a band who have located their deep inner reserves of confidence. ![]()
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