It’s quite hard to dislike Sea Girls.
After all, what’s not to like? The quartet of London twenty-somethings have spent the last four years consistently cranking out more bangers than your average butcher, and all while developing a reputation as one of the best live acts in the country.
Maybe it’s this reputation that’s led them to this: a slot at London’s cavernous The O2, supporting boyband-megastar-turned-purveyor-of-actually-pretty-good-indie-rock, Louis Tomlinson. After all, they do a noble job of getting each and every member of the capacity crowd bouncing by the end of the second song – a job that many support acts have tried to take on in the past and, urm, failed admirably.
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Or maybe it’s the fact that they’re just the perfect songwriters for this gig.
Their songs are instantaneous, and yet not obvious – they’re catchy, and clever, and able to draw you in. And then, before you know it, you find yourself bouncing amongst a crowd of teens, feet hitting the ground to the sound of a sharp snare as frontman Henry Camomile bellows about the dual pitfalls of working days and perks of weekends throughout their appropriately named recent single, ‘Weekends and Workdays’.
Or maybe – just maybe – it’s because they’re one of the best young indie bands in the UK right now. And, in his role as UK pop’s indie-crossover-commander-in-chief, Louis Tomlinson decided that they were the perfect band to warm up a sold-out arena crowd for an evening of high-octane, energetic, and enthusiastic indie-pop.
And you know what, dear reader? We think he might just have been right.
