That said, a sense that fashion has moved on does infect the fourth album by Two Door Cinema Club, the anonymous Northern Irish trio whose sales peak ostensibly came with their 2010 debut Tourist History, but whose forthcoming tour nevertheless takes in – you guessed it – the O2 Arena. You could read this as revealing a lot about how what’s deemed fashionable doesn’t always reflect what’s actually popular. Whatever next? The Spice Girls’ record for consecutive London arena sell-outs quietly broken by Scouting for Girls? A stampede for tickets caused by the re-formation of Joe Lean & the Jing Jang Jong? The Courteeners keep packing stadiums in the north of England.

Earlier this year, the Wombats headlined Wembley Arena. The current tour by White Lies winds up with not one, but two dates at Brixton Academy. The answer seems to be: touring venues rather larger than you might expect. Given the climate, you might reasonably ask, whither the lower-division strivers of yesteryear, their moment in the sun a decade hence?

Over on the Radio 1 playlist, the Amazons offer a solitary, exception-that-proves-the-rule hold-out, swamped by hip-hop, grime and pop. These are, after all, widely held to be thin times indeed for the kind of mainstream alt-rock that was once the NME’s lifeblood: the one thing noticeable by its absence on the main stage at this year’s Glastonbury is a hot young guitar band, catapulted to fame on a firework trajectory by overheated media attention, including at least one front cover that excitedly claims “THIS BAND WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE”.

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