Bombay Bicycle Club – Turn The World On. An exclusive live performance for Vevo.

From the jump, Bombay Bicycle Club had an uncanny ability to package complex melodies into pristine indie rock parcels. “Always Like This,” the fan favorite from their mostly rockin’ but sometimes folky 2009 debut album, is a lesson in counterpoint from bassist Ed Nash and guitarist Jamie MacColl. On next year’s acoustic-leaning “Flaws” album, the beautifully simple “Dust on The Ground” is followed by “Ivy & Gold,” a sparkling jig that makes you want to pick up your own guitar and try to nail its intricate melody. The 2000s indie golden era was typified by ambitious songwriting, and the London quartet exemplified it with songs that were both angular and angsty, yet lush and downright pretty. It all came together on ‘A Different Kind Of Fix,’ where vocalist/guitarist Jack Steadman’s experimental pastiches of harmonies, falsettos, samples, and synths still left space for fantastic bass and guitar lines; see: “Lights Out, Words Gone” and “Shuffle.” More than a decade removed from that album, they’re strong as ever. 2020’s shifty, crunchy, and hypnotic “Eat, Sleep, Wake (Nothing But You)” boasts more than 60 million Spotify streams. We had a blast capturing four tracks from their sixth studio album ‘My Big Day.’ On this project they invited some friends: Damon Albarn, Nilufer Yanya, Jay Som, Chaka Khan (!!!) and Holly Humberstone. But in our studio, it was the core four doing what they do best: creating space for each member, trading riffs, enchanting listeners.

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Artist: Jack Steadman
Artist: Jamie MacColl
Artist: Ed Nash
Artist: Suren de Saram
Artist: Nathan Cox
Artist: Emma Topolski
Artist: Tom Leaper
Artist: Dan Berry
Artist: Nilufer Yanya (featured artist)
Monitors: Will Hurn
Tech: Joe Holden
Tech: Marc MacNab-Jack

Vevo Executive Producer: Nick Calafato
Vevo Producer: Yomi Ogunsola
Vevo Production Co-Ordinator: Nancy Loud
Vevo Music & Talent: Alex Morley
Vevo Music & Talent Coordinator: Elise Quartey
Vevo Senior Editor: Helena Duque Avalos
Vevo Post-Production Coordinator: Scott Robson
Vevo Design Lead: Charlee Twigg
Director: Jim Wilmot
1st AD: Carter Simpkin
Director of Photography: Keith Gubbins
Steadicam Operator: Beau Pritchard-James
1st AC / Focus Puller: Alasdair Baines
2nd AC / Loader: Evangeline Perkins
Gaffer: Giovanni Mattei
Light Director: Sam Jones
Stills: Aron Klein
Sound Engineer: Alex Archer
Sound Assistant: Jonny Keirn
Runner: Elizabeth Playle
Runner: Eunice Fabiyi

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24 Comments

  1. You always think you've blinked and missed it

    On your last lap 'round the sun

    I never felt so optimistic

    Since the days when I was young

    I'd dream of growing old

    And all the things I thought I would have done

    Turn the world on

    You'll make a fine young man

    You'll smooth it out, you'll see where I went wrong

    You'll find your merry gang

    They'll hang their bags a couple pegs along

    They're leaving one by one

    They're calling out, they're begging you to come

    Turn the world on

    Turn the world on

    You make your bed just how you wanna

    Make your bed how you intend

    You take the page and fold the corner

    Try to skip right to the end

    You'll dream of moving on

    To all the things you thought you would have done

    Turn the world on

    Turn the world on

    It won't wait for you

    Turn the world on

    It won't wait for you

    It won't wait for you

    Turn the world on

    It won't wait for you

    It won't wait for you

    Turn the world on

    It won't wait for you

    It won't wait for you

    Turn the world on

    Nice song :))

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