Warmduscher at the Jacaranda Baltic: Review

If I were asked to describe Warmduscher in three words, I’d tell you they were sweaty, sleazy and scrappy.

If I were asked to describe them in a sentence, I’d tell you they’re one of the best rock and roll bands working today.

Arriving post of the release of their excellent fifth album, 2024’s Too Cold to Hold, Warmduscher made their long-awaited return to Liverpool on the 12^th of November to perform their individual brand of arty, funk-flavoured post-punk at the Jacaranda Baltic.

Those who have seen the band live before will know that as great as each of the band’s recordings are, live performance is where they truly come alive.

Not merely fun to watch, like some bands are, Warmduscher are an electrifying group of experienced, consummate performers. Hardly a surprise when its members also make up fellow London-based musical mainstays Fat White Family, Insecure Men and Paranoid London.

The set clocked in at just over an hour in length, made up mostly of danceable party inclined bangers, save for a couple of slower ‘love songs’ in the middle of the set, lead vocalist Craig Higgins quipping beforehand, ‘if anyone gets pregnant tonight, name the baby after me’.

After a predictably brilliant encore, a rousing rendition of Midnight Dipper, the band’s most popular song to date, Warmduscher exited to stage to passionate whooping and applause.

The floor left sticky with jubilantly hurled beer, and an audience left genuinely thrilled and exhilarated, a night of brilliant, adrenaline fuelled post-punk came to an end.

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