Chats Palace, Homerton
Fletchr Fletchr — 24/09/26
FLETCHR FLETCHR’s gig at Chats Palace was so hot the fire brigade turned up. In truth, that may not be because of the band, though it is accurate to say that from the get-go, theirs was a properly sweaty gig. ‘I’m slipperier than a mermaid’s pocket’, someone in the audience heckled, while another showed a friend their wrinkled fingers midway through the show.
Gig review and photos below!
Photography by Emily Brown
Opening their UK headline tour on Thursday night in London, FLETCHR FLETCHR performed the entirety of their freshly released EP, ‘On The Island We Call Home’ opening with ‘For You’, plus tracks spanning back to their relatively recent 2023 debut single. Tough Cookie opened (photographed above), an interesting group with a definite sound emerging between alternative indie and folk rock.
FLETCHR FLETCHR are a delight to watch live, for the quality of their musical output and the dynamic performance each band member delivers on stage. Though Rohan Fletcher is a commanding vocalist with an intensity to match his eye contact across the audience, the four-piece as individuals are equally arresting. In ‘F**king With My Head’, Oli Williams executes an anxiety-paced drum beat, while bassist George Green takes in the crowd from the edge of the stage at the eerie, drawn-out ending of ‘Passenger’.
‘We all used to work in a pub together’, Rohan says, ‘...we wrote a song about getting out of it’, before diving into ‘Blink Of An Eye’; a soaring song of connection that builds on the band’s foundation of unity and the shared experience of isolated struggle. Above all else, these are four best mates having the best time – as the audience, we’re invited to come along for the ride.
The most joyful of the band’s chemistry to witness are the frequent looks between Rohan and Adam Sanders, in an array of wordless dialogues. In an interview with FLETCHR FLETCHR last year, Sanders said that if ‘the other one needs a look over and a little bit of support… you can use that and bounce off each other’. That brotherhood was crystal clear, though on Thursday, those knowing looks seemed to carry a lighter load of emotions, from surprise at the volume with which fans chanted their choruses back, to pure enjoyment in the instrumentals of their songs.
FLETCHR FLETCHR are not bound by one viral moment or great track. Theirs is a setlist that’s already dominating, powerful, and rooted in passion. A group in the front row were attending their fifth show — quite remarkable for a band with just two EPs out. But it tracks: their songs work fantastically in a live environment as they're given the energy they require.
In return, their fans are really, really going for it, spanning from wide-eyed adolescents to old-school rockers. During ‘Streetlights’, a young man sings every single word back to Fletcher with complete commitment and awe, and I’m reminded of watching teenage boys do the same during a pre-debut album Sam Fender gig. FLETCHR FLETCHR undeniably so, resonate with and are idolised by men, in a display of positive masculinity that not all rock-led gigs are so fortunate to elicit.
The band debut two new tracks. ‘Debby’ folds in elements of Brit-pop through spoken-word verses delivered with great fervor, while ‘Dancing on the Motorway’, sounds the most uplifting song to date on ‘putting the beauty back’, performed by a band who so clearly relish their time on stage.
On leaving the venue, a queue snaked through the doors and into the venue’s archway, of merch-laden audience members happy to wait for their chance to give ardent adulations.
FLETCHR FLETCHR are an exciting band with something to say. Their fans are already hooked on every word… it won’t be long before the rest of the country start turning their heads too.