On an ice cold Tuesday evening in London, me and three of the boys head for Camden to finally see JUNGLE perform at the well acclaimed, Roundhouse. This being our 3^rd attempt at seeing the band!

Two early elementary errors, firstly, we were starving and the Nandos opposite looked busier than my Twitter feed after Madonna took a stumble. Dominoes it was! Secondly, you ever tried to park in Camden? Just get the tube, it will make your life so much happier.

So we arrive at the venue around 8pm and swiftly up stairs to the bar. Immediately you appreciate the venue, its clean, modern & bursting with character without the feeling of it being too clinical. It actually saddens me that venues such as The Shepherds Bush Empire have been left so far behind.

We took a stroll into the main arena around 8:30pm as it was just beginning to fill up, I’m always excited to see the warm up acts, sometimes my favourite part of the whole gig! Unfortunately, not this time. I hate to spread a single word of negativity about anyone but I just think the warm up was poorly selected. Jungle are known to bring great energy, rhythmic beats and a vibe, the warm up did the polar opposite and I can speak for most of the crowd, we just didn’t get it.

However, onto the main event, WOW! Around 9:30pm the room goes dark and we are hit with the well-known JUNGLE logo in lights at the back of the stage, the noise and energy in the sold out audience start to build and bang, the guys are on stage.

Full respect to Tom McFarland and Josh Lloyd-Watson, the two driving forces behind the band and long term friends, they were centre front with microphones and synthesisers in front of them. I counted ten members of the band including a swagged out vocalist to the left of the stage, carrying himself like Rick James it was hard to watch anyone else!

The guys were on stage for just over an hour and felt like the perfect journey with my ears trying hard to pigeon hole their sound without any success. If Rudimental have taught us anything, it’s that uplifting trumpet solo’s are a sound of 2015. They performed tracks from their self-titled ‘Jungle’ album released on XL Recordings in 2014, finishing of course with their biggest hit to date, Busy Earning. The refreshingly diverse audience were completely engaged throughout and very much came to dance.

In a completely over saturated market where it seems impossible to stay on top of new releases, we have to say hats off to JUNGLE, they have found their sound, which is like no other. They get a 10/10 for energy on stage and it is clear they are in love with what they are doing.

I would love to see them at a festival over the summer!