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18 stunning, exclusive photos of Childhood at Oslo, Hackney
See your new favourite band in action
by Andrew Trendell | Photos by Charlotte Patmore
13 August, 2014: Drowning out the hype with a wall of glorious noise, Rough Trade's Childhood took to the stage at Oslo to show London why they're about to be massive. Check out our beautiful and exclusive photos from the show here.
Childhood have been working up to this album launch for quite some time. Rough Trade’s management arm picked them up in 2012 and since then they've been relentlessly touring, and rehearsing at Studio 180 – which their former tour buddies, Palma Violets, named their debut album after – to develop their spaced out combination of Slowdive-esque shoegaze and pop.
They illustrated their ability on early singles ‘Blue Velvet’ and ‘Solemn Skies’ and although they impressed among industry, friends, and keen purveyors of new music, they needed an album to make a more sustained impact. Now that moment has arrived and they nailed their first album with 11 sparkling new songs.
Glowing reviews are filling up every reputable music publication and blog in sight, ensuring they're making the transition from Palma Violets support figures to a headline act in their own right. And the demand to see them live is there. The words 'completely sold out' fill posters through the venue and people outside are kicking themselves for not getting tickets earlier.
Upstairs in the tightly packed standing venue, they play a hit-filled set with album opener 'Blue Velvet', new single 'As I Am' and the previous single 'Falls Away', which sees their newly appointed fifth member on keyboards and backing vocals give a mesmerising new dynamic. Charismatic frontman Ben Romans-Hopcraft belts out his words with confidence and an engaging sense of emotion that a band on the verge of becoming a household name in 2010's indie rock scene should.
Gone is the shy and overly-reverbed vocal tones of early gigs. Beyond the pop composition of these anthemic indie tracks however they show a broad pallet of musical influences by going on extended instrumental tangents that reference the Krautrock of Neu. Swarming phaser toned guitars mix with the steady rhythm section and falsetto vocals at this point. Veering back toward indie pop they leave the encapsulated audience with a storming rendition of 'Solemn Skies' that confirms they're ready for the big time.
Below: 18 stunning, exclusive photos of Childhood at Oslo, Hackney
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