Live Review: Call Me Amour (Supporting Set It Off) at the Electric Ballroom, Camden, London (01/03/25)

It has been one hell of a tour for the alternative rock band, Call Me Amour, playing all over Europe throughout February alongside Set It Off, Point North and TSS. The tour, a sellout all over, has culminated in the UK, and the final two dates took place at the Electric Ballroom in London.

I went to the second of those dates, the final show of the tour, to see Call Me Amour play, and saw a band capable of headlining venues of this size in the future. Not just because of what they did on stage, but because of how the packed crowd (at 7:05pm too) reacted to everything they did.

It immediately made me remember my chat with guitarist Geoff Murphy back in January of this year (check it out here). Where I asked him about the connection they share with the live audience. It’s spiritual, and all the proof anyone needs is witnessing it firsthand. That’s what I did, and it left such an impression. I love Call Me Amour on record, just check out my review of their latest EP here, but live, it is a different beast altogether.

Heavier, louder, bouncier, catchier, and so damn watchable. They’re not on stage for long (especially as this is a club night at the Ballroom, so early doors), but they deliver an immense showcase of their anthemic ways.

Considering that, it’s no surprise that their five-song set features five of the band’s very best, with three tracks coming from the new EP. There’s Happy Hell, a lively hit that sounds even more powerful live. There’s Good Day, which on record features Mikey Chapman of Mallory Knox fame, an energised blast of melody-laced rock that has some in the crowd looking a bit emotional. Then, there’s Bloom, which on record features Bleed from Within’s Scott Kennedy, and is a highlight of the show. Not just because the dark and dangerous vein of intensity that runs through it sounds even more impressive live, but because the eruption at the end comes with a very cool touch.

Get down, get down low, and be prepared to ‘erupt’. Seeing most of the Electric Ballroom take part in this, and other fun interaction points, is all the proof anyone needs of the connection Call me Amour share with their fans. They’re the second band on a bill of four, and they have everyone in the palm of their hands.

The rest of the set features Chasing Bugs, and its immense chorus and crowd chant segments, before their ‘over to soon’ show wraps up with Girl on the Wall. How do you end a set, and a tour, like this? If you’re vocalist Harry Radford, you get in the pit. It’s a class end to a show-stealing set. Mark these words, Call me Amour will be headlining venues of this size in a few years’ time. For now though, according to Harry, we will only have to wait until November to see them back on the road on their own headline tour. I can’t wait.