Confidence Man live at Kendal Calling 2023 (Gary Mather)
Confidence Man played the Saturday main stage at Kendal Calling 2023.
Confidence Man, Mystery Jets and Frank Turner are among our highlights from the second day at last weekend’s Kendal Calling festival.
Confidence Man were there still riding high off the back of last year’s TILT album – given big praise by Live4ever as a, ‘throwback to the times when tomorrow just meant a chance to do more of the same’:
“There’s a fine line between celebrating and caricaturing this ecstatic mix of cheesy euro-pop, rave and early 90’s overground clubbing, but Confidence Man don’t care, which is what makes this blend of Dee-Lite meets Steps a hedonists paradise.”
Where else then would you expect to find such bender-friendly royalty than on Holiday, a song with a hugely anthemic, ear-worming hook but, the band say, an underlying message we should all take to our hearts: ‘A vacation is just sunburn at premium prices – but a holiday is a state of mind.’
“Throughout, there’s also an assured brand of energised post-feminism, always present but especially in places like the hugely radiant opener Woman; you might not have expected to find that or lots of other things like it here, but dismiss Tilt as just pastiche at your own risk.”