The Last Train Home
IndieThe Wombats proudly present twenty years of A Guide To Love, Loss & Desperation.
Each night will see The Wombats perform their iconic album from start to finish, before a second half packed with their biggest hits and fan favourites.
Two decades on, their enduring ability to bring together generations of fans is testament to the timeless appeal of The Wombats' music.
There’s a line in one of The Wombats’ first hits, ‘Let’s Dance to Joy Division’, that goes “Everything is going wrong, but we’re so happy”. They sing it over and over. The sentiment is everywhere on the band’s debut album, A Guide to Love, Loss, and Desperation, and it’s mirrored in the music’s exuberance. It’s a kind of joyful nihilism. The feeling of giving up, set to lyrics that make giving up sound like freedom. ‘Let’s Dance’ finishes with the couplet “Let the love tear us apart/I’ve found the cure for a broken heart”.