Wolf Alice – live at Best Kept Secret Festival 2022 – Recorded by VPRO, Hilversum – 3VOOR12
Wolf Alice in concert tonight. Recorded live at Best Kept Secret Festival June 12, 2022 by VPRO, the Dutch Radio and TV Network.
Wolf Alice are an English alternative rock band from London, England. Formed in 2010 as an acoustic duo comprising of singer Ellie Rowsell and guitarist Joff Oddie, Wolf Alice have also featured bassist Theo Ellis and drummer Joel Amey since 2012.
Wolf Alice played their first gig at London’s Highbury Garage, December 2010 supporting April in the Shade, after Rowsell and Oddie met the band at an open mic at the Hope and Anchor, Islington. They released their debut single “Fluffy” in February 2013 and followed it with “Bros” in May. They released their debut EP Blush in October, and its follow-up Creature Songs in May 2014. In February 2015, the band released the lead single “Giant Peach” from their gold-selling debut album My Love Is Cool, which was released in June 2015. It includes their 2014 single “Moaning Lisa Smile”, which peaked at number nine on US Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart in August 2015, and was nominated for the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance.
The band released their second gold-selling studio album Visions of a Life in September 2017. Featuring the hit song “Don’t Delete The Kisses”, it debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart, and received universal acclaim from music critics. Ranked as one of the year’s best albums by multiple publications, the album won the 2018 Mercury Prize.
Wolf Alice released their third gold-selling studio album Blue Weekend in June 2021. The album which features singles “The Last Man On Earth” and “Smile” reached number one in the UK Charts and was also nominated for the Mercury Prize. In fact, the band are one of only a small handful of artists to be nominated for the Mercury Prize for every single album they’ve released. In 2022, Wolf Alice won the Brit Award for British Group.
So, to get an idea what they were up to last year at the Best Kept Secret Festival in Holland, press Play and crank it up.
