Pop royalty
Years & Years air new video for ‘King’
Watch Olly Alexander and co. get swept up by clingy strangers.

Poor Years & Years. Just a couple of weeks on from winning the BBC Sound of 2015 and already they’re getting mobbed by strangers, given absolutely no free time or space, and they can’t even play their respective instruments without being met with a swarm of fans.
In their new video for ‘King’, Olly Alexander and co. don’t get a second’s breathing space. They’re pushed and pulled this way and that. Emre Turkmen gets ever-so-slightly groped while playing keys, while Mikey Goldsworthy doesn’t have a hope in hell of executing the right sample patterns.
Grab ‘King’ on iTunes and check out forthcoming UK dates. A Shepherd’s Bush date sold out in fifteen minutes, because this is Years & Years we’re talking about - they’re massive now.
FEBRUARY
26 Birmingham, Institute Temple
27 Manchester, Deaf Institute
28 Nottingham, Bodega Social Club
MARCH
02 Bristol, Thekla
03 Glasgow, King Tuts
05 London, Heaven
06 London, Heaven
07 Brighton, Haunt
JUNE
12 London, Shepherd’s Bush Empire
As premiered on Buzzfeed, the video for ‘King’ is viewable below.
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