On a grey winter afternoon, two men sit at a table in the empty bar of London Bridge’s Omeara. Jack Steadman, in circular glasses and a Patagonia raincoat, is folding away his copy of the Guardian. Jamie MacColl, in a mustard cord shirt and Doc Martens, has just finished some street food from the market next door. The pair, who together make up half of Bombay Bicycle Club, sip glasses of tap water to a soundtrack of the rumble of trains on the tracks overhead.
The last time we heard from Bombay Bicycle Club, they’d gone out on a high. 2014’s So Long, See You Tomorrow, their fourth album, was their first to reach number one. Their final show before they announced a hiatus in January 2016 was also the last ever gig at London’s 19,000-capacity Earl’s Court – a historic, confetti-fuelled moment before the bulldozers came in to flatten 40 years of rock history.
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