There’s a guy in the centre of the moshpit at Sheffield’s O2 Academy who has taken Circa Waves’ ‘Carry You Home’ a little too literally; he’s waving his crutches around in the air with reckless abandon, as his friends look pleadingly at him, singing the lyrics: “I would die for you / Just to try and carry you home”. 

But perhaps it’s unsurprising that the walking wounded are not afraid to get into the centre of the action and have fun; frontman Kieran Shudall encourages us to look after each other at several points during the band’s high-energy set, repeatedly asking those at the front if they’re okay. His interactions with the crowd are peppered with expletives, as he says ‘fuck you’ to an assailant who lobs a plastic cup at his head partway through ‘Stuck In My Teeth’, and thanks the crowd at the end of the show for being “so much fucking fun”. 

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