Not even a cloud of dust could stop the party as The Maccabees made a sensational return on the final day of this year’s All Points East festival.
The five-piece, playing their first festival show since reforming after eight years apart, put together a set list full of 2000s classics kicked off by Latchmere – an ode to a leisure centre in Battersea.
Overcoming sound problems and a thick layer of dust which had covered the park, festival-goers faces and no doubt our lungs, the south London band declared it their best show ever.
Singer Orlando Weeks said: “It’s unbelievable that you paid that money and took that risk to see our band. Thank you for taking a chance on a band that hasn’t played for a long time.”
A highlight of the set came when Jamie T joined them for Marks To Prove It as well as Sticks and Stones.
After an encore that concluded with their most popular song Pelican, guitarist Felix White said that “we want to thank you for putting The Maccabees back together”, adding: “We’re thinking of the people in Palestine and we know you are too.”
Earlier highlights of the day came in the form of CMAT whose star continues to rise – getting the whole crowd dancing with Take a Sexy Picture of Me and I Wanna Be a Cowboy, Baby.
Thousands then rushed over to the second stage to see Bombay Bicycle Club who teed up The Maccabees perfectly for an evening of Indie Sleaze.
