{"id":590981,"date":"2025-11-24T15:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/590981\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:16:15","slug":"wolf-alice-is-coming-to-london-next-month-heres-why-you-should-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/590981\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolf Alice is coming to London next month: here\u2019s why you should go"},"content":{"rendered":"

Few bands touring today are as reliably excellent as Wolf Alice<\/a>. On the go since 2010, they\u2019ve managed to strike the perfect balance between mainstream superstardom and remaining everybody\u2019s favourite indie rock secret<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a secret that increasingly more of us are in on. The band are playing one of the biggest venues in London<\/a>, the 20,000-person O2, next week \u2013 but I\u2019ve been lucky enough to catch them ahead of time during their European tour<\/a>, for an advance look at what to expect when they reach their home town.<\/p>\n

The Columbiahalle, in Berlin, is a much more intimate venue by comparison. There are about 2,500 people packed into the space, but that\u2019s all to the better: it means that the view is excellent, and it\u2019s relatively easy to get a space close to the front.<\/p>\n

When they do appear, it\u2019s with a decisive opener: their new songs Thorns, in which Joff Oddie, Theo Ellis and Joel Amey all take up their instruments ahead of singer Ellie Rowsell, who appears on stage with a flourish and a power pose that draws cheers from the crowd.<\/p>\n

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Vicky Jessop<\/p>\n

From there, we\u2019re straight into the thick of things. There are a lot of songs to fit into the hour and a half runtime \u2013 more than 20, in fact, spanning four albums \u2013 but a lot of those are straight from the band\u2019s newest album, The Clearing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That means we get Rowsell\u2019s defiant Bloom Baby Bloom, followed by drummer Joel Amey\u2019s groove-heavy White Horses (though his vocals are lost slightly in the noise from his drumkit), before old-school hit Formidable Cool appears to get the crowd jumping.<\/p>\n

One of the band\u2019s greatest strengths has always been in how nimbly they can turn from thoughtful \u2013 wistful, even \u2013 to high-octane fury, and there\u2019s lashings of that in evidence here. <\/p>\n

Leaning Against The Wall is a testament to the former. As the stage is washed in pink, Rowsell strikes poses while crooning out the lyrics to one of the band\u2019s sweetest love songs. Straight after that comes How Can I Make It OK?, from their excellent second album \u2013 but the crowd\u2019s energy really picks up when they launch from there into Bros.<\/p>\n

Towards the end, the energy ramps up. You\u2019re A Germ features Rowsell at her screamiest, belting out the lyrics into her like she\u2019s trying to settle a score; after that, the triple whammy of Yuk Foo, Play The Greatest Hits and Silk is eardrum rattling.<\/p>\n

They do manage to save the best for last though. Don\u2019t Delete The Kisses was the band\u2019s breakthrough single, and still has a raw potency to it that is amplified a thousandfold live. In the tiny Columbiahalle, it\u2019s electric; at the O2<\/a>, it will likely set hairs on end. It\u2019s a compelling argument for going to see them again: see you there.<\/p>\n

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Wolf Alice performing on the Other Stage during the Glastonbury Festival (Yui Mok\/PA)<\/p>\n

PA Wire<\/p>\n

What\u2019s on the set list?<\/p>\n

Safe From Heartbreak (If You Never Fall in Love)<\/p>\n

Wolf Alice are playing The O2 on Dec 2 and Dec 3. Tickets for the show are still on sale on Ticketmaster; book at theo2.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few bands touring today are as reliably excellent as Wolf Alice. On the go since 2010, they\u2019ve managed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,58657,15973,16,15,127438],"class_list":{"0":"post-590981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-the-o2","13":"tag-tour","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wolf-alice"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115605340464406432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}