![]() ![]() Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardianīut middle-aged record execs are not 14-year-old girls. That side of it was really great to watch.” ![]() You have all these 14-year-old girls who are mad, passionate fans and see her as a role model, a liberating and empowering thing. ![]() “What was nice about them compared with a lot of guitar bands,” Winterbottom says of his film, a follow-up of sorts to his 2004 drama 9 Songs, “is Ellie is the focal point. They are relatable their achievements are aspirational rather than abstract. That they are relatively normal people – quirky, awkward, and both wary and belligerent during our interview – is another reason why they have such a dedicated fanbase. Their sound hasn’t been compromised by current trends (they have continued to make guitar rock when everyone else is experimenting with pop, R&B and rap), and the result is brave and bright, making them one of the few guitar bands around who you could actually imagine headlining a UK festival. ![]() Their new album, Visions of a Life, sounds as if it has designs on a US market, for listeners fond of Smashing Pumpkins’ bombast, LA road-trip stories, and glossy, bratty punk. Their grungy, dream-pop 2015 debut My Love Is Cool reached No 2 in the UK album charts, and was nominated for a Grammy. Today Wolf Alice are backstage at the Reading festival, where they have just performed a secret set at midday, waking up the hordes of teenagers who sleepily stumbled from their tents. At Knebworth.’ You don’t have that much money any more, those means.” Click here to see a trailer for On the Road.Įllis continues: “When I was 21 nobody went: ‘Here’s £10m and a big bag of gak. ![]()
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