Bacchanalia Magazine

by Kyle Roczniak

Your new favourite supergroup FIZZ crash-landed onto the stage at Manchester’s O2 Ritz last night. Comprised of Orla Gartland, Dodie Clark, Martin Luke Brown, and Greta Isaac, FIZZ are longtime friends and collaborators and their debut album The Secret To Life spawned a weird and wacky world known as FIZZVILLE. And for the first time ever, we’ve experienced it in the flesh…

Blending unexpected melodies and time changes, their electrifying stage presence, majestic harmonies, bold costuming straight out of a kids TV show, and tight chemistry, FIZZ spreads the utopic, escapist fantasy of their debut record into a live stage setting complete with lollipops, fireworks, and a sprawling hillside.

Hits from the album such as High In Brighton and Hell Of A Ride were joined by an array of each member’s solo works such as Orla’s track Codependency from her latest album and Dodie’s Lonely Bones. The addition of a cover of Lilly Allen’s Smile (mixed with Wannabe by the Spice Girls and that one circus song) just further pushed FIZZ’s fun image onto the crowd of adoring fans. An encore of the album’s title track left the biggest impression on the crowd though, maybe due to the bubble gun used by Dodie, or the hand puppet they mimed along to the guitar line.

FIZZ’s live show and music represents a life where you’re never too old to have fun and be silly, with an apocalyptic and uncool outlook towards the things happening around you.

Photography by Kyle Roczniak