The View

The View at Scala

It was the comeback that never was as the show ended in dramatic style

It was the comeback that never was as the show ended in dramatic style

Scottish indie rockers The View burst into fame when debut ‘Hats Off To The Buskers’ soared to No.1 in the album charts of ’06. Everyone knows them as the band that sang ‘Same Jeans’. They are now due to release their fourth album, ‘Cheeky For A Reason’, despite the decline of the era of Oasis and Arctic Monk

I for one have always intended to see The View perform live but the opportunities have always seemed to pass me by.

Dundee’s the View are a band so hard-wearing they even book a gig on January the 1st, when the nation is meant to be languishing in its hangover.

Less than two weeks before the same could be said of the small Camden venue – only then the crowd had gathered for the unlikely show of The View’s godfather Peter Doherty with The Libertines.