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Kids In Glass Houses are having a real moment<\/em>, aren’t they?<\/p>\n At the beginning of the year, the Welsh Wonders announced a comeback to commemorate the 15-year anniversary of their debut album, Smart Casual.<\/p>\n After that, their return breathed new life when they played Slam Dunk Festival 2023. There, they had crowds reeling from just how exciting, powerful and still truly fantastic they were.<\/p>\n So then, a lot of pressure was on their headline tour across the UK. The Smart Casual 15-year anniversary shows had them in some of the biggest venues of their career to play the record from front to back.<\/p>\n Hitting the stage of the epic O2 Forum in Kentish Town on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, Kids In Glass Houses transported me back to my youth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n They were one of everyone’s favourite bands as a youth, weren’t they? Releasing some of the poppiest, catchiest, emo tracks around – and home-grown in Great Britain. It rarely got better than that.<\/p>\n Well, Kids In Glass Houses have only gotten better with age.<\/p>\n Frontman Aled Phillips was like a jackrabbit caught in the headlights as he bounced around the stage, non-stop, throughout the evening.<\/p>\n It was truly thrilling to see him explode into each chorus as he excitedly – genuinely excitedly – let his vocals soar at every opportunity he had. Between the sounds of his stunning voice and the moves he spoiled his fans with, this was a performance that allowed fans to lose their minds.<\/p>\n For me, this elevated joy was actually downtrodden, a little, by the rest of the band.<\/p>\n While Aled embodied the epitome of what a frontman should be, the rest of Kids In Glass Houses remained still, strained, somewhat sombre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n