Wolf Alice Live Review (Bristol)

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 Wolf Alice - Trinity, Bristol (2/4/15)

Joe Hall

With debut album ‘My Love Is Cool’ quickly approaching, the Trinity in Bristol hosted Wolf Alice as part of their current UK tour. Support came in the form of Bloody Knees and The Magic Gang.

Wolf Alice kicked off with their first single ‘Fluffy’ before jumping straight into ‘She’. “Hello Bristol” bassist, Theo addressed the crowd, responded by loud cheers and chants of ‘Ellie, Ellie’. They played ‘Your Love’s Whore’ before returning to another song off the Blush EP – ’90 Mile Beach’. Another new song ‘The Wonderwhy’ was played before again returning to one off their earlier EP songs; ‘Storms’.

Providing a taste of the debut album, expected 22^nd June, Ellie’s angelic like vocals belted out new songs ‘You’re A Germ’ and ‘Soapy Water’. The set ended with ‘Bros’, fans favourite ‘Blush’ and lead single from upcoming debut, ‘Giant Peach’

From the second the band stepped off stage, the crowd chanted “We want more” and no less than a minute later they were back; much to everyone’s approval. They were setting up for the next song when the eight hundred odd people in front of them all stood there requesting ‘Giant Peach’ to be played again. Ellie laughed and looked to her band to see if they were up for it. Theo took matters into his own hands by addressing the crowd again,

“The next song we are playing is fucking called ‘White Leather’ okay–“ before being interrupted by Ellie who said “no it isn’t” and immediately started playing ‘Giant Peach’.

It was even more manic the second time around with Ellie coming down to the barrier to great fans as well as people falling to the floor and tug of wars taking place over crowd surfers between the security guards and the crowd itself. After the encore, drummer Joel chucked his sticks into the crowd then Theo decided to chuck himself into it.