Ever since singer Olly Alexander took the helm of Years & Years, the group has been faced with bangers to whom its boyish tenor imparts emotion – too bad that voice failed in Werchter.
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Ring ring, who’s there? It is Olly Alexander, the singer of Years & Years, who thanks to the series It’s a sin also known as an actor. He answered with a cheeky ‘hello’ wrecker‘, which was at odds with the grim decor with the dirty phone booth on the stage. Fortunately, the audience of Werchter Boutique is a bit older and no one had to explain to them what a pay phone is. In that cell he also sang a hyphen from ‘Night call’, the title track of the latest Years & Years album, before the cell made way for four equally dirty toilets, where his five dancers booty calls acted or tried to seduce passers-by. For those who still doubted the theme of the performance: that was sex, and cruising.