Bombay Bicycle Club
Live Music: Pop, Indie, Rock
It's easy enough to be in a band these days; master a few chords, write some lyrics about youthful detachment and play the back room of some grotty boozer and invite all your mates.
The next day, you're the coolest kid in school. Bombay Bicycle Club go one better. Sure, they've done all of that, but the songs are actually good, very good in fact, and the lyrics actually listenable, suggesting wisdom beyond their teenage years.
Having opened V Festival 2006, recorded with Jim Abbiss, and with a debut album set to be released this summer, they are perhaps one of the few bands from the current all-ages movement that may go on to great things when the novelty of youth wears off.
The next day, you're the coolest kid in school. Bombay Bicycle Club go one better. Sure, they've done all of that, but the songs are actually good, very good in fact, and the lyrics actually listenable, suggesting wisdom beyond their teenage years.
Having opened V Festival 2006, recorded with Jim Abbiss, and with a debut album set to be released this summer, they are perhaps one of the few bands from the current all-ages movement that may go on to great things when the novelty of youth wears off.
Upcoming Events
Bombay Bicycle Club
Saturday, 28 Apr
( 7:00PM)
@ Alexandra Palace
Following up on the monumental achievement that was last years Brixton Academy shows, Bombay Bicycle Club are stepping it up a notch with a show at Alexandra Palace.A band who seem to effortlessly progressing ...
Comments
Gemma Thomson
Tuesday, 14 April
SINGLES REVIEWS - 13th April 2009
Bombay Bicycle Club – Always Like This
Island Records
I defy anyone to be miserable whilst listening to this catchy little tune from everyone's favourite school-leavers.
Maybe it's because the sun is shining over Spoonfed HQ today, but I can just imagine listening to this on a warm summer's day, hanging out in the park, playing on the swings and eating ice cream, before heading off for a night on the town. And judging by the video, the Bombay Bicycle Club boys think so too. 3.5/5
GT
Bombay Bicycle Club – Always Like This
Island Records
I defy anyone to be miserable whilst listening to this catchy little tune from everyone's favourite school-leavers.
Maybe it's because the sun is shining over Spoonfed HQ today, but I can just imagine listening to this on a warm summer's day, hanging out in the park, playing on the swings and eating ice cream, before heading off for a night on the town. And judging by the video, the Bombay Bicycle Club boys think so too. 3.5/5
GT
Joe Harrod
Thursday, 10 September
SINGLES REVIEWS - 14th September 2009
Bombay Bicycle Club – Magnet
Island Records
Bombay Bicycle Club show off a few new tricks here: an ingenious reverberating basso vocal, a menacing bridge section and a couple of stripped down moments where the song glides along with its engines idling. Despite sounding like the bastard progeny of early U2 and Suede, it's still good.
But, and this may just be me, it also seems a little bit wet. There are four of you, for crying out loud! Make some flipping noise. 3/5
Bombay Bicycle Club – Magnet
Island Records
Bombay Bicycle Club show off a few new tricks here: an ingenious reverberating basso vocal, a menacing bridge section and a couple of stripped down moments where the song glides along with its engines idling. Despite sounding like the bastard progeny of early U2 and Suede, it's still good.
But, and this may just be me, it also seems a little bit wet. There are four of you, for crying out loud! Make some flipping noise. 3/5
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