![]() Indie bands had seemed relatively apathetic about politics until the past few years of global turbulence (the Horrors’ Faris Badwan once said “politics doesn’t mean anything to me”). They do not write songs about societal ills, but they did play at the Tories Out march and a charity gig in aid of refugee children, while Rowsell fronted a video on behalf of Labour ahead of the general election urging new voters to register. One thing they have made a concerted effort to change is their political presence. If you don’t do anything, they will Theo Ellis “He’s a prick.” People are taking responsibility so bad things like Trump don’t happen again. “He’s probably here, the geezer who said that,” Ellis concludes. “‘You need to choose what style you need to be: either Florence or Patti Smith.’” “You can be Florence and the Machine or Evanescence!” says Ellis, in the style of a bolshie A&R. ![]() The question, according to guitarist Joff Oddie, was often: “Which one are you going to be?” It was the same when they started – they were an indie band, a shoegaze band and a pop act. ![]() As well as not wearing matching leather, they span a range of genres: on the new album you get snotty punk, space-rock, and beautiful soundscapes merging with frenetic fury, from the glacial, euphoric Don’t Delete the Kisses to Sky Musings, which is cosmic and feverish. The band agree that aesthetic tribalism is dead, but most big labels still have one foot stuck in the Strokes-era past, and were confused about what Wolf Alice represented. “I remember thinking: ‘Oh shit, we really need a thing. You don’t have a thing about you,’” Rowsell recalls. “When we weren’t signed we had a few meetings with labels and this one guy said: ‘When you guys walked in the room I didn’t think: There’s a band. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardianīut middle-aged record execs are not 14-year-old girls. That side of it was really great to watch.” You have all these 14-year-old girls who are mad, passionate fans and see her as a role model, a liberating and empowering thing. “What was nice about them compared with a lot of guitar bands,” Winterbottom says of his film, a follow-up of sorts to his 2004 drama 9 Songs, “is Ellie is the focal point. They are relatable their achievements are aspirational rather than abstract. That they are relatively normal people – quirky, awkward, and both wary and belligerent during our interview – is another reason why they have such a dedicated fanbase. Their sound hasn’t been compromised by current trends (they have continued to make guitar rock when everyone else is experimenting with pop, R&B and rap), and the result is brave and bright, making them one of the few guitar bands around who you could actually imagine headlining a UK festival. Their new album, Visions of a Life, sounds as if it has designs on a US market, for listeners fond of Smashing Pumpkins’ bombast, LA road-trip stories, and glossy, bratty punk. Their grungy, dream-pop 2015 debut My Love Is Cool reached No 2 in the UK album charts, and was nominated for a Grammy. Today Wolf Alice are backstage at the Reading festival, where they have just performed a secret set at midday, waking up the hordes of teenagers who sleepily stumbled from their tents. ![]() At Knebworth.’ You don’t have that much money any more, those means.” local time here.Click here to see a trailer for On the Road.Įllis continues: “When I was 21 nobody went: ‘Here’s £10m and a big bag of gak. Blue Weekend was nominated for the Mercury Music prize last year, making it so that each of their three albums have gotten a nod, including a win for 2017’s Vision Of A Life.Ĭheck out Wolf Alice’s full North American tour dates below and get tickets beginning this Friday, February 4th, at 10 a.m. Led by magnetic singer Ellie Rowsell, Wolf Alice have established themselves as one of the foremost UK rock and roll groups. The illustrious British band are continuing to tour their latest album, 2021’s Blue Weekend, after a run of sold out North American shows late last year. While Wolf Alice was already scheduled to open for Halsey at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and for Bleachers at Red Rocks in Colorado in June, they’ve just announced a thorough slate of their own headlining tour dates through North America. ![]()
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