Blue Weekend well and truly cemented Wolf Alice's position as one of the best bands the UK has produced in the past decade. Their first two LPs were hardly forgettable - the fact Visions Of A Life scooped the Mercury Prize in 2018 tells you that - but number three elevated the London quartet to the heights everyone knew they were capable of reaching.
With lyrics sharper than ever and a typically eclectic mix of songs, from frenetic punk number Play The Greatest Hits to charming ditty Safe From Heartbreak, it's a stellar album that could easily have earned the band their second Mercury Prize, were it not for the brilliance of precocious singer-songwriter Arlo Parks.
Add that to that the fact they were deservedly named Group Of The Year at this year's BRITs and it's no wonder virtually every ticket for Wolf Alice's current UK tour, which included three nights on the trot at London's 5,000-capacity Eventim Apollo last week, was snapped up well in advance. The Bristol date at the O2 Academy was initially scheduled to take place on January 30 but the band, like many others, decided to delay due to fears over the fast-spreading Omicron variant.
