Australian festival regulars The Wombats came to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre last Sunday night to hold their own event for an enthusiastic crowd of fervent fans. Originally forming in Liverpool in 2003, the band has since amassed an impressive back catalogue, which ranges from poppy explosions of sound to slow, melody laden jams. Their Sunday set list roamed through tracks of euphoric nostalgia to some of their newer, anthemic material.
The bands lyrics commonly romanticise the less than perfect aspects of human nature. Mistakes and drunken antics are transformed into sonnets to finding escape in spontaneity and love in the small hours of the morning. Their music exquisitely builds to frenetic choruses and their kick drums thump like a quickening heartbeat. As suggested by some of their quirky lyrics, you can be lost in that feeling of the warm swirl of the dancefloor when you’re only just on the right side of one too many drinks.
It’s quite likely you’ve heard their catchy classics Joy Division or Techno Fan pumping out of radio stations such as Triple J. If you haven’t had the chance to listen to their latest album “Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life”, it is worthwhile popping your headphones in for new gems such as Bee Sting and Lemon in a Knife Fight.
With furry mascots, impressive laser lights, animated wombat shaped ice cream cones and 3 foot wide balloons the band certainly didn’t rely on just their music for crowd stimulating thrills. The event was held in the Adelaide Entertainment Centre’s Theatre area and the band and the crowd seemed to bounce off each other’s energy, as wide smiles filled the small pauses between belting familiar lyrics into the night.
If you have not yet experienced the fun of a Wombat’s concert, they are one to look out for. Luckily for us Aussies the boys love us as much as we love them and it shouldn’t be long before they are bringing their alternative pop and psychedelic rock back to our stages.
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