Let's Dance to Joy Division - The Wombats Single Review
The Wombats
Single Review
Having experienced a greater adrenalin rush and confidence boost than that you'd receive by winning the London Marathon dressed as Chicken Joe from Surfs Up, due to the fact that you are the first unsigned band to sell out the Carling Academy in your home city of Liverpool. Is something that the chirpy trio, The Wombats will never ever forget. It is of little surprise that the good folk of Liverpool took so readily, to a band that grazes in between the lush pop-fuelled musical pastures of Shack and the lyrical eccentricity and vocal playfulness of Half Man Half Biscuit.
It is probably the added combination of a lamenting Travis lag and some prosperous Polyphonic Spree backing that attaches to this strut through music's past that has widened their appeal, geographically speaking. Mathew Murphy's friendly and high profile leading pitch provides for a stirring narrative. Something that gives The Wombats another weapon to use in their fight against Lethal Bizzle, to win the main support slot before The Enemy on the forthcoming NME Rock N' Roll Riot tour.
Gigs
- Wed 20th Oct 2010
- The Wombats
- The Underground (Stoke-on-Trent)
- Thu 21st Oct 2010
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- The Cockpit (Leeds)
- Fri 22nd Oct 2010
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- Jailhouse (Hereford)
- Sun 24th Oct 2010
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- The Rescue Rooms (Nottingham)
- Mon 25th Oct 2010
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- King Tut's Wah Wah Hut (Glasgow)
- Tue 26th Oct 2010
- The Wombats
- Heaven (London)
- Fri 29th Oct 2010
- The Wombats
- Static Gallery (Liverpool)
- Wed 12th Jan 2011
- The Wombats
- Spring and Airbrake (Belfast)
Tickets Coming Soon - Thu 13th Jan 2011
- The Wombats
- Dublin Academy [1/2] (Dublin)
Tickets Coming Soon - Sat 15th Jan 2011
- The Wombats
- Picture House (Edinburgh)
- Sun 16th Jan 2011
- The Wombats
- Fat Sam's (Dundee)
- Tue 18th Jan 2011
- The Wombats
- O2 Academy [Academy 1 & 2] (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
Tickets Coming Soon - Wed 19th Jan 2011
- The Wombats
- Leeds Metropolitan University (Leeds)
Tickets Coming Soon - Fri 21st Jan 2011
- The Wombats
- HMV Institute [formerly Barfly] (Birmingham)
Tickets Coming Soon - Sat 22nd Jan 2011
- The Wombats
- Academy [1, 2, 3 and Club Academy] (Manchester)
Tickets Coming Soon - Sun 23rd Jan 2011
- The Wombats
- Leadmill (Sheffield)
Tickets Coming Soon - Mon 24th Jan 2011
- The Wombats
- University of East Anglia [UEA] (Norwich)
Tickets Coming Soon - Tue 25th Jan 2011
- The Wombats
- Cardiff University Students Union [Solus/ Great Hall] (Cardiff)
Tickets Coming Soon - Thu 27th Jan 2011
- The Wombats
- Academy (Bristol)
Tickets Coming Soon - Fri 28th Jan 2011
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- Hammersmith Apollo (London)
