North London indie-rock legends, Bombay Bicycle Club, will return to the independent venues that shaped them for four special charity shows this month. First, they will appear at The Camden Assembly on March 13 and 14, and then head to Nambucca in Archway on March 20 and 21. In the post below, the band revealed the set will be comprised of only their early EPs and MySpace demos.
Support for these gigs comes from the winners of a Battle of the Bands contest held by Bombay Bicycle Club. On their website they wrote, “we got our start playing Battle of the Bands events when we were teenagers. We wanted to offer a similar opportunity to the next generation of teenagers.”
The winners were West London band, Tight Lines, who will be supporting The Camden Assembly gigs and Leeds-native band, Call Me Animal, who will support the Nambucca gigs.
Tickets for these shows will be available via prize draw. Each entry costs £10, and results in two tickets for each fan chosen. The proceeds go to the Universal Music UK Sound Foundation, a music education charity for children. More information on this charity can be found at their wesbite.
These nostalgic and intimate gigs come as further celebration of the band’s 20th anniversary. Previously, it was announced that the band will be playing a one-off show at London’s LIDO Festival on June 14 with support from Metronomy, Alice Phoebe Lou, Billie Marten, Lucy Rose and more.
At LIDO, Bombay Bicycle Club will perform their 2009 debut album, ‘I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose’ in full. It is an album the BBC remarked as “the sound of a band with a immense future ahead.” A live recording of the album at London Brixton Academy was released in 2019 and critics said it ‘creates an almost painful longing for live music’ and that ‘it’s enough to make you miss the feeling of spilt beer on your skin and hearing more of what your neighbour is belting than the actual band you came to see.’
The band returned to recording new music after a three year hiatus in 2023. Their latest album, ‘My Big Day’ was given four stars by Far Out Magazine, saying in their review, “this album feels like a maturation of the original starter kit that saw them turn into ready-baked brilliance 15 years ago.”
Bombay Bicycle Club says, “it’s not lost on us how rare it is and how fortunate we are to have the opportunity to make music and to still have so many people who care about our music and support us by coming to our shows.” And their 20-year celebrations—created with future, past and present fans in mind—show this thoughtful appreciation.
Tickets for the London LIDO Festival can be found on the festival’s website. And to enter the prize draw for the upcoming March gigs, visit this site.
Just be sure to line up a ride after, as the band says their “parents will be picking [them] up after the gigs.”
Bombay Bicycle Club 2026 Live Dates
13/3 – The Camden Assembly – London, UK
14/3 – The Camden Assembly – London, UK
20/3 – Nambucca – London, UK
21/3 – Nambucca – London, UK
14/6 – LIDO Festival – London, UK
