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Enter Shikari review – sensory overload by a British band hitting the big leagues


Twenty years into their career and on their first arena tour, Enter Shikari push the massive sound system to the limit with gleeful and vibrant cross-genre rock

Photograph: Georgina HarrisonThe band are no strangers to big stages – they’ve performed at scores of major festivals across Europe – and they ably match the arena scale here with a sensory tour de force. During Sssnakepit, the screen behind Rob Rolfe’s drum riser morphs into a moving, luminous green depiction of the Snake video game, which then switches to pogoing clown faces for The Jester’s big beat finale. Both the band and the thirtysomething fans in attendance have long retired the glow sticks and left the teenage growing pains behind, but this feels like the beginning of Enter Shikari’s greatest chapter as much as a victory lap two decades in the making.

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