We headed down to The Bodega for the first show of Lime Garden's first ever headline tour…
It was a busy evening at The Bodega, with three different bands performing. First were Nottingham’s very own The Crying Violets, fronted by LeftLion’s former Music Editor Katie Lyle. The band showed versatility despite their set being relatively short, and my only complaint is that I would have liked to be able to listen to them for even longer. But more greatness was to come, so I won’t complain too much.
Next were Heartworms, a post-punk band hailing from London. They had a pretty chaotic day before arriving in Nottingham, unfortunately missing out on soundcheck due to traffic delays when travelling up to Nottingham from down south. This amounted to some unavoidable technical difficulties throughout their set, but the band powered through, styled it out, and still left their mark by the end of their powerful performance.
Then it was time for the main event, and Lime Garden took to the stage. They are a band who have very few songs out in the world (they are yet to even release an EP, let alone an album), so it is impressive that they have garnered enough popularity in such a short space of time to be able to do a headline tour, centred around only a handful of singles.
This led them to incorporate some previously unheard tracks into their forty-minute set, such as I Know and Love Song, which are bound to be instant Lime Garden classics once they are eventually released. Because this was the first show of their tour, this was their first time playing these live. “Thank God it’s out the way, now we can enjoy ourselves!” Chloe exclaimed, eager to get back to the tracks she was more familiar with.
These included the upbeat Marbles, which got everyone dancing in the crowd, before stripping things back to the more downbeat and melancholy Sick and Tired, a track which sounded beautiful in a live setting. Of course, the band concluded their set with Clockwork, their most popular song to date, which has over one million streams on Spotify at the time of writing this.
The set may have been a short one, but it was definitely sweet, and the addition of two support acts rather than just one made up for any setbacks there many have otherwise been when it came to the length of the evening. Lime Garden did everything they needed to do in order to make their first ever headline show a roaring success, and we were lucky that it happened to take place in Nottingham.
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