We can’t remember the last time we were this excited.
Picture the scene: it’s a Friday night at Bristol’s SWX. We’ve got a pint in our hand, we’ve got the weekend ahead of us, and we’ve just spent the last half an hour tapping our foot to the rather-hard-to-dislike sounds of prodigious opening act Ten Tonnes. So far, it’s been a good night.
What’s about to happen, though, is about to blow the metaphorical socks off of anything we’ve seen, done, heard, or experienced at any point so far this evening. It’s something so exciting, and so impossible not to enjoy, that we can already feel ourselves quaking in our boots at the sheer force of nature that we’re being mentally pre-emptively presented with.
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s a Tom Grennan live show.
This guy is amazing, and yet he keeps getting better
We’ve seen Tom a couple of times before, and we swear that he gets better every time. That may have a little something to do with the fact that the venues get steadily larger every time; after all, tracks like Tom Grennan‘s undoubtably sound best when they’re being hollered back to the stage by thousands of howling voices. After all, that’s what his songs are made for – they’re anthemic indie-pop songs of the finest calibre, and we defy anyone not to be singing along to them by the time the second chorus rolls along.
It’s hard to pick a highlight of the show, but that’s solely because there were no low points. By the time we’d recovered from the indie-stomp of Royal Highness, we were able to re-ruin our vocal cords by belting along the chorus of Found What I’ve Been Looking For; and, by the time we’d caught ourselves from falling on the floor in a jouous puddle to the sounds of Praying, we found ourselves being swept off our feet by an oh-so-very-tender acoustic version of Tom‘s Chase & Status collaboration, All Goes Wrong. How could we not enjoy a night like that?
We’re telling you, he’s going to be a star
We’ve said it before, and we’ll keep saying it until we’re proven right:Â Tom Grennan is going to be absolutely massive. He’s got the tunes, he’s got the charisma, and he sure as hell knows how to perform his songs live: we’d give it a year or two before he’s packing out arenas.
