The addition of one of our favourite new
bands Blossoms to the James bill for the opening night of their La Petite Mort
tour was a pleasant surprise. Like every
step that’s been put in their way so far, they hurdled it effortlessly with
aplomb.
It’s a sign of a band that’s going places
that they can simply move from playing to 50 to 100 people on the emerging band
circuit of venues, as we saw Blossoms at Liverpool’s Shipping Forecast last
month, to take to a stage twenty times the size and not look or sound at all
uncomfortable up there. Mark our words,
by the end of 2015, Blossoms will have made venues this size and larger their
own.
Tonight’s set draws mostly on the familiar
although they’re already at the point where they can leave songs like Lava and
Scattered Rain, which have become crowd favourites, out of the set and
introduce new material (to our ears and we didn’t quite catch the title) with
the lyrical quality and romanticism of “I miss you, the stately homes of
England, how beautiful they stand, lately it’s a lonely love I know”.
They already look the part in their
matching black turtle necks, but it’s just a small part of their stage presence
that’s becoming increasingly imposing as they experience nights like this and
their recent ones with The Courteeners.
There’s a justified self-belief and when you have stone-cold classics
like You Pulled A Gun On Me and set-closer and debut single Blow in your
repertoire this early on in your career then that belief can’t be dented. My Favourite Room sees Tom pick up an
acoustic guitar mid-set and demonstrates that there’s more variety to their
work already than most bands get at their debut album stage.
Blossoms' official website can be found here. They are also on Facebook and Twitter.
You can read our interview with Blossoms from August here.
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