![]() ![]() For a moment, audience, kids and band alike were united in childlike glee. Wolf Alice also gave a new meaning to the phrase “the kids are alright” when two children (presumably relatives of the group) came on stage wearing those giant trendy ear-defender headphones. ![]() Wolf Alice 2022 Tour Dates: 02/14 Glasgow, UK Barrowland Ballroom. Its songs arrived with a pop sheen that suggested a desire to break through to a larger audience.Īnd, at the Olympia, it was newer tracks such as Delicious Things and Feeling Myself that made an impact (just four cuts from their Mercury-winning Visions Of A Life featured). Consequence spoke with Wolf Alice last October to discuss Blue Weekend and returning to live music you can revisit that conversation here. But 2021’s Blue Weekend album marked a new beginning. And their earlier material indeed has a dark fairytale quality. The band are named after a short story by Company of Wolves author Angela Carter. Flanking Rowsell, meanwhile, were the chalk and cheese pairing of guitarist Joff Oddie, who kept his head down, and bassist Theo Ellis, who, with his spiked hair and swagger looked like an exile from the mid-2000s heyday of landfill indie. Read our interview with Wolf Alice on Blue Weekend. She didn’t say much between songs – aside from giving a shout-out to her many Irish cousins in attendance. ![]() She brought a lightly worn charisma to mid-tempo, Fleetwood Mac-esque singles Lipstick on the Glass and How Can I Make It Okay? But it was during doomy ballads The Last Man on Earth and closing number Don’t Delete The Kisses that she truly came into her own, her soaring voice glittering with shrapnel. The group’s lodestar was frontwoman Ellie Rowsell. Check out Wolf Alice’s full North American tour dates below and get tickets beginning this Friday, February 4th, at 10 a.m. ![]()
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