O2 Victoria Warehouse, ManchesterThis one-time wedding band have ditched the floor-filling covers, but their show retains a joyous jukebox feel
Everything about the Lathums’ biggest ever live show feels designed to herald a major arrival. Formed at
music college in Wigan in 2019, this four-piece band represent the latest round of indie guitar revivalism. Like Stockport’s Blossoms and Llandudno’s Catfish and the Bottlemen before them, they have a No 1 album under their belts (their debut, How Beautiful Life Can Be, nudged
Drake off the top spot earlier this month) and an endless supply of love from their home town. The Lathums have seemingly perfected the formula for creating all-out bangers and mass adoration.
The sold-out, 3,500 capacity Victoria Warehouse is fizzing – part indie disco, part
Football match – long before the band walk on stage to the Housemartins’ Caravan of Love. If there’s one thing you need to know about the Lathums, it’s that they started out as a wedding band. Tonight they joyously embody that fact, dressed in sharp suits, with huge glitter balls cascading the audience in gold light at key moments of the show. This is a group who used to time-hop through rock history in hotel function rooms every weekend, and while they’ve ditched the floor-filling covers, the show retains a jukebox feel.