By passing an eagle eye over the support bands most heavily featured on the tours of the most well-known acts of the moment, you can usually spot the ones being thrust forward to become the next new gang of scallywags off the conveyor belt. Like it or not, it is the musical fraternity’s natural selection process, and with White Light Parade’s list of tour compadres consisting of the likes of The View, The Enemy and even The Jam, you can bet your last bottom dollar you have you’ll be hearing Xfm blaring them out regularly.
But White Light Parade have certain qualities aligning them a rung above the indie bourgeois. While they are galloping to clamber onto the 80’s synth revival, the Bradford lads appear to take the more conventional guitar rock route, and they do it very well. Catchy choruses with a heavy influence of the Libertines spliced with Hard-fi’s good parts (few though they may be), it’s feel-good, indie-disco rock that is as charming as it is inoffensive. ‘Turning All The Lights Down’ has a toe-tapping beat, and they have enough charm to attack the mainstream market.