On This Day 20/05/2012 The Horrors

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On this day, 20 May 2012, rock band The Horrors played Cardiff University.

Formed in Southend-on-Sea in 2005, consisting of lead vocalist Faris Badwan, guitarist Joshua Hayward, keyboardist and synthesizer player Tom Furse, bassist Rhys Webb, and drummer and percussionist Joe Spurgeon their music has been classified as garage rock, garage punk, gothic rock, shoegaze and post-punk revival.

The band have released five studio albums: Strange House (2007), Primary Colours (2009), Skying (2011), Luminous (2014) and V (2017) all of which charted within the UK Top 40.

The band joined Florence and The Machine on the UK and Ireland leg of her Ceremonials Tour in March 2012. They also headlined the Word Arena tent of 2012's Latitude Festival. In December 2012, the Horrors released the remix vinyl box set Higher.



Setlist

Mirror's Image

Who Can Say

I Can See Through You

Scarlet Fields

Dive In

Endless Blue

Changing the Rain

Sea Within a Sea

Still Life


Encore:

You Said

Moving Further Away