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It was last Thursday, on January 20th in Kentish Town in North London that I had a chance to attend a gig at HMV Forum. On a cold night outside we were welcomed inside by friendly staff serving cheap alcohol drinks at the bar and even greater DJs on the scene. With a crowd of couple thousand people waiting for the bands to show up (fashionably late, as usually), the DJ Nick Grimshaw was warming up the place with sharp electro music in front of BBC 1 broadcasters – both radio and television.  It wasn’t much expected, but the crowd of people age 18-30 were exploring the dance floor by united hand movements responding to the DJs shouts ‘’How are you all tonight? Let me see you alive!’’ before the bands arrived. Dim yellow, blue and purple lights covered most of the place, giant television screens were showing off the faces in the crowd: everything from couples kissing to people drinking Carlsberg and shouting ‘’I want to see White Lies! Now!’’. Call it crazy, but the energetic atmosphere absorbed every one who was breathing. It was impossible not to join the crowd and be squeezed in-between people when White Lies finally appeared on the stage. Few people who were sitting this whole time upstairs now jumped on the audiences downstairs, crying and begging the band to play their favourite songs. Light effects turned red on the stage while the audience was left in complete darkness. Dark punk rock music started to play so quietly everyone had to sharpen up their hearing. Couple minutes later, the music exploded into breath taking volume, making the listeners sing along with so very well known songs as “To Lose My Life’’ and “Death”. Less than an hour long performance by London-based trio Harry McVeigh (lead singer and guitarist), assist/lyricist Charles Cave and drummer Jack Brown finished off by playing one of their latest songs from their new album “Ritual” which was released on Monday last week. Surprisingly, White Lies fans already knew the lyrics by heart and sang out loud all together during the last minutes. 

It was last Thursday, on January 20th in Kentish Town in North London that I had a chance to attend a gig at HMV Forum. On a cold night outside we were welcomed inside by friendly staff serving cheap alcohol drinks at the bar and even greater DJs on the scene. With a crowd of couple thousand people waiting for the bands to show up (fashionably late, as usually), the DJ Nick Grimshaw was warming up the place with sharp electro music in front of BBC 1 broadcasters – both radio and television. 

It wasn’t much expected, but the crowd of people age 18-30 were exploring the dance floor by united hand movements responding to the DJs shouts ‘’How are you all tonight? Let me see you alive!’’ before the bands arrived. 
Dim yellow, blue and purple lights covered most of the place, giant television screens were showing off the faces in the crowd: everything from couples kissing to people drinking Carlsberg and shouting ‘’I want to see White Lies! Now!’’. Call it crazy, but the energetic atmosphere absorbed every one who was breathing. It was impossible not to join the crowd and be squeezed in-between people when White Lies finally appeared on the stage. 

Few people who were sitting this whole time upstairs now jumped on the audiences downstairs, crying and begging the band to play their favourite songs. Light effects turned red on the stage while the audience was left in complete darkness. Dark punk rock music started to play so quietly everyone had to sharpen up their hearing. Couple minutes later, the music exploded into breath taking volume, making the listeners sing along with so very well known songs as “To Lose My Life’’ and “Death”. 

Less than an hour long performance by London-based trio Harry McVeigh (lead singer and guitarist), assist/lyricist Charles Cave and drummer Jack Brown finished off by playing one of their latest songs from their new album “Ritual” which was released on Monday last week. Surprisingly, White Lies fans already knew the lyrics by heart and sang out loud all together during the last minutes. 

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