10:45 pm on Saturday 12 Jul 25
Indie-pop band High Windows straddle the audiences for The 1975, Fontaines DC, and The Last Dinner Party. With pounding electric guitars, intricate synthesizers, jazzy drums and a soaring vocal, the group encapsulates the highs and lows, the sweat and tears, the euphoric community and crushing loneliness of trying to have your voice heard. Formed while at university in Leeds, the five-piece cut their teeth in the city’s famous indie venues. They are now based in London, and released their debut single ‘Love at the End of the World’ in 2022, featured in the Evening Standard’s ‘What We’re Listening To’. They have since released follow up single Make Me into You, later remixed by producer Braison Cyrus (Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses). The band has played at iconic venues such as The Grace, O2 Academy Islington and The Water Rats and performed at Alexandra Palace Park for its 150th anniversary festival, and can next look forward to supporting The Zangwills on their UK tour.
‘With searing guitar riffs and a chorus that will be stuck in your head till next festival season… the Londonindie band’s uplifting single explores love enduring in testing times.’
– Jonathan Kanengoni, The Evening Standard on ‘Love at the End of the World’