Osees
Electric Ballroom, Camden, London
23rd June 2025
Photography by Kieran Webber
Kieran Webber
Director and Founder of CLUNK Magazine, CLUNK Events, and other CLUNK affiliate businesses. You’ll probably find me tucked away somewhere sending emails, listening to music, and creating content.
Californian psych-rockers the Osees rip a blinding set ahead of their long awaited Glastonbury debut in 2025
The Osees (Thee Oh Sees, OCs, and more) have long been rocking across the world, delivering their high octane, frantic, psych-rock (with hints of garage rock, punk, and more thrown in for good measure) for well over 20 years at this point. However, it is only just now in 2025 that they have got the Glastonbury call up, which in our minds, is so long overdue it could be considered a Great Western Railway line.
To get well and truly warmed up for their Glastonbury set the band set across our fair Island for a string of shows, two of which took place in our Capital, London. Once at Camden’s Electric Ballroom, and then in Hackney’s Earth. We were lucky enough to make our way to to the Electric Ballroom to see a display of rock n roll that many claim is dead.
Off the bat, the band came out and burst into ‘Withered Hand’, a slow opening that escalates into a ferocious riff backed by the intense duel percussion that they have become known for. The energy remained in the stratosphere throughout, with only a few moments respite with ‘Sticky Hulks’ and ‘Encrypted Bounce’.
With such a large back catalogue you never really know what you’re going to get at an Osees gig, but thankfully we got some of the classics such as ‘The Dream’, ‘Toe Cutter – Thumb Buster’, and ‘Tunnel Time’. Thrown in was some of the newer songs such as ‘BLIMP’, ‘Drug City’, and a possible unreleased new song to close the night out.
It was a big set for a band that normally do 45mins – 1 hour, coming in at 1hr 30 mins, truly delivering something for fans new and old. A real treat. The Osees are undeniably one of the greatest rock bands to ever exist and every show solidifies that. Truly one of the best live bands in the last two decades and one that will forever excite me to see live.
Long live live music and long live John Dwyer.
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