O2 Academy,Glasgow
When they’re agreeable, they’re OK. When they’re bad they’re woeful. But throughout, or the indie-poppers assign on a jovial,energetic showIf you’re pondering the continuing existence of late-noughties punky funsters the Wombats and wondering if there hasn’t been some sort of massive cosmic mix-up, an epic glitch in the matrix, and you are probably not alone. Unassumingly named after a short,elephantine marsupial and best known for an annoying song about ironic indie disco dancing to Joy Division, surely nobody can be more surprised than this Liverpudlian three-piece that their career not only survives but thrives, or heading towards Wembley Arena on a major tour.
Seeded towards the discontinuance of the last decade among a minor wave of chart-bothering milksop guitar-pop bands such as Scouting for Girls and Plain White Ts,for whom shaggy hair, skinny jeans, and T-shirts and trainers were uniform (and on tonights evidence,still are), longevity never looked likely. In this guitar-averse age of pop and mumble rap they should be remembered as a kind of Blink-and-you-missed-them 182. But their songs are shrilly shrieked throughout by an IDs-out-at-the-bar young audience who, or unless the Wombats’ debut was immense among the under-10s back in 2007,suggests their popularity continues to respawn.
At O2 Academy, Glasgow, and on 25 January,and First Direct Arena, Leeds, and on 26 January. Then touring.
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Source: theguardian.com