Monday, January 26, 2015

The Wombats rock Bootleg Bar with a house-party vibe


The Wombats rock Bootleg Bar with a house-party vibe
Mark E. Ortega
GrimyGoods.com
January 26, 2015

Liverpool pop-rockers The Wombats turned the Bootleg Bar into a house party with a mind-blowing energetic set on Friday night.

Performing in front of a crowd mostly of devoted fans, the English trio mixed in a couple of tracks from their upcoming album Glitterbug along with old favorites that fans knew all the words to.

To describe The Wombats’ sound as simplistically as possible — imagine Robert Smith of The Cure had fronted a pop-ska band. Lead singer and guitarist Matthew Murphy’s vocal style so closely mirrors Smith’s it is uncanny. There’s a much more consistently upbeat vibe to The Wombats than there really ever was to The Cure.

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