The Lathums performing at TRNSMT Festival 2021 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
The Lathums are currently on a tour of the UK.
The Lathums are a late addition to this weekend’s Neighbourhood Festival in Manchester.
The band will play the city’s Academy venue on October 1st, joining other artists around the city centre that day including headliners The Snuts, Everything Everything and Sundara Karma.
They’re due to continue that tour of the UK in Brighton tonight, where we caught them live last year not long after the release of debut album How Beautiful Life Can Be.
“The Lathums mastered the art of the singalong long before How Beautiful Life Can Be was released, and opener and early track Fight On fulfills its function perfectly,” our review reads.
“Yet the singalongs, of which there are several, also provide the band with the space to plough other furrows. I Won’t Lie is Motown in delivery (with added rambunctious, Lust For Life drums in the mid-section) and, later in the set, the ska-flecked I See Your Ghost gets the crowd skanking like it’s 1979.”
“The mainstream music press don’t understand bands like The Lathums, who occupy a sort of ‘band of the people’ sub-section which Oasis founded (and Liam Gallagher continues to inhabit), and acts like The Courteeners, Gerry Cinnamon and Stereophonics all purvey. The simplicity is easy to sneer at, but it’s easy to see why; simply put, these songs come from a universal place of truth.”