Eagerly awaiting fans at Manchester’s Albert Hall had the pleasure of seeing the Camden quartet on the penultimate night of their first UK tour since the release of their debut album ‘My Love is Cool’ back in June of this year.

Considered to be one of the more finer venues around Manchester, the aloof Albert Hall features timeless stained glass towering windows, and a large arched roof.

Refusing to stick to just one conventional category, each song is a complete juxtaposition from the last and the ethereal-punk goddess that is Ellie Roswell filled the venue with shoe-gaze-esque songs that had the crowd cause quite a stir. At one point, the audience was swaying, arms round one another, even some with lighters in the air. However things can quickly turn nasty, circle pits opened up in the more heavier songs such as ‘Moaning Lisa Smile’, from their EP ‘Creature Songs’, with unbearable humidity from sweaty teenagers and adults alike, thrashing into one another unaware of their actual movements.

Before the encore, the fluttery ‘You’re A Germ’, that proved to be incredibly popular with fans when released as a single before the album, emphasized how much this band can lure fans in who usually won’t go for “heavier” genres. The deceptive whimsical soundings of Roswell’s voice (and lyrics) “Are you wild like me, raised by wolves and other beasts?” In the ode to friendship ‘Bros’, can quickly turn, raw and nasty when Ellie and Joel scream and snarl in ‘You’re A Germ’- “One! Two! Three! Four! Five! Six! Seven! You ain’t going to heaven!”



Flirting with different genres, few songs provided respite for the endearing fans. And despite awful feedback noise during Joel Amey’s fairy-tail like ‘Swallowtail’ vocals, the crowd wasn’t fussed due to the usually unrequited relationship between a drummer and his microphone.

Ending with their newest single ‘Giant Peach’, bassist Theo Ellis, and Ellie Roswell were swaying side-to-side with one another during the intro. Crowd-surfers being carried over the barrier by fellow fans and then security. Wolf Alice were going to extremes in order to interact with the audience, Theo Ellis jumping into the crowd, Ellie letting fans use her microphone in ‘Moaning Lisa Smile’ are just a few examples of this.

Wolf Alice exceeded my expectations and possibly even those who had seen them live before, since the release of ‘My Love Is Cool’ they have certainly found their image. This performance definitely left every attendee with at least a mild form of adrenaline filled whiplash.