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Having just released a new album last week, after a four year hiatus, Tokyo Police Club's break couldn’t hamper their triumphant return to the London stage.
The Canadian four piece, who first burst onto the scene in the mid noughties indie heyday, have always predominantly been a band on the periphery of mainstream success. Opening with track ‘Argentina’, which they debuted at the end of last year, the crowd passionately sang along. Lead singer David Monks thanked the crowd with: "it’s fucking fantastic to be back…..it’s been a while" - before all present rewarded the band with matching energy and enthusiasm.
The band played through tracks from the new album, with a few older classics thrown into the mix for good measure. Monks later went on to remark to the crowd, that they were ‘singing along these days, rather than moshing’ and thanked the crowd for growing up with the band.
After an hour strong set the band exited, as is customary these days, only for Monks to return minutes later with his acoustic guitar, and suggested he wanted to do something different. Standing away from the microphone and asking for quiet (which is never easy in a riled up crowd), whilst encouraging the crowd to sing along with a stripped back version of the classic ‘tessellate’, it was mesmerising.
The rest of the band returned to the stage, to finish with probably the most popular Tokyo Police Club song to date, released back in 2007, ‘Your English Is Good’ which was met with a somewhat muted energy, knowing that the gig was at an end.
Regardless, the band and crowd produced such energy for the final number that no one would have gone home disappointed.
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