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RIOT SEASON

Wembley

Played to eleven people for six years and then to eleven thousand in one summer

style

  • indie rock
  • stadium rock
  • driving guitars
  • anthemic chorus
  • male baritone
  • urgent and rousing
  • big live drums
  • singalong energy
  • festival scale
  • british accent

the numbers

bpm
144
key
G major
energy
0.70
dance
0.96
valence
0.50
vocal at
2.5s
length
2:45
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental)

We played like it was Wembley in a room above a pub
Not as a joke, not as coping, as an actual technical decision
If you play small in a small room you get smaller rooms
(smaller rooms)
That is not manifesting, that is just how bands get booked

Eleven people saw a stadium band that night (a stadium band)
And one of them told fourteen people, and here we are

Wembley
(Wembley)
We were playing it for six years before anyone noticed
Wembley
The room changed. We did not change. That is the trick.

We are playing an actual arena in November, which is absurd
Same set, same jumping, same shouted bit in song four
Nothing has been upgraded except the number of people
(number of people)
I am not being humble. I am telling you the method.

(crowd chant, no instruments)
Play it big... play it big...
(BAND CRASHES IN)

Wembley
(Wembley)
We were playing it for six years before anyone noticed
Wembley
The room changed. We did not change. That is the trick.

(Wembley!)