Circa Waves want to be playing the biggest stages. Granted, there’s one bigger at Glastonbury – but the Other Stage is still a huge deal for a band who intend to headline this kind of thing one day.
And let’s face it, they’ve packed the bangers for the occasion. Even though they’re only two albums deep, they’ve measured their arsenal for maximum impact.
‘Wake Up’ shouldn’t be needed in mid afternoon, but that doesn’t stop it doing the job written on the tin regardless, while ‘Fire That Burns’ is equally descriptive in it’s impact. It’s ’T-Shirt Weather’ that’s the real arms aloft anthem though. That heatwave may have passed, but with the temperature turned up a notch, it’s the sort of song other bands dream of having, all fizzy energy and unrelenting fun.
But that’s Circa Waves for you. This isn’t a band for beard scratching. They’re for letting the hair down and going for a good time. That’s one mission that’s already firmly in the bag.
Circa Waves played:
Wake Up
Get Away
Goodbye
Fossils
Out On My Own
Stuck
Stuck in My Teeth
A Night on the Broken Tiles
My Love
Fire That Burns
T-Shirt Weather