Choosing to wear boiler suits on one of the hottest days of the summer so far is a questionable move at best, but one that captures the DIY ethos of Manchester’s Hot Milk perfectly. The quartet preached a powerful message of self-empowerment and raising a middle finger to the nay-sayers, all wrapped up in satiable gritty pop melodies.
The true high points of the set came in the form of the rousing anthem ‘Alive’, with its fist-pumping ode to those universal moments of vitality and unabashed joy, and the crowning glory closer ‘Awful Ever After’, with its sing-along chorus that had the whole tent bouncing their fists in unison!
Rises to prominence don’t get much more meteoric than that of Hot Milk – and, if the glimpse of new tracks that we were privileged to witness are anything to go by, there’s no stopping them. Power, pop, and punk all blended into one delectable milkshake of a set. From one Mancunian to another, that was bloody ace!