Red Rum Club tap into the sound of Bootle as they prepare for 'unbelievable' M&S Bank Arena show

Red Rum Club's crowning moment is on the horizon, but the band can't quite believe it is happening.

In April, the indie group will play Liverpool's M&S Bank Arena. It is the stand out from their busy schedule of 2024 gigs, as they tour their fourth studio album around the United Kingdom and America.

The arena gig looms large for the six-piece band, who hail from across Sefton. When asked about taking to the stage, drummer Neil Lawson and lead singer Fran Doran joke modestly that someone has made a mistake in booking them.

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Neil told the ECHO: "It still doesn't feel real to be honest, it still feels like a bit of a joke. It's like we're going to get there and they'll say 'did you think that you were actually playing the arena?"

"I feel like there will be another room in the arena that we don't know about", Fran joked. "They'll say 'no you're playing the conference centre'. We'll find out we're in meeting room four."

In fact, Red Rum Club are not restricted to the conference centre or a meeting room. They will be on the arena's main stage and the 11,000 capacity venue is approaching a sell out.

Fran said: "We remember the arena being built, it was like a spaceship. We'd never had an arena and now it lurks at the edge of the Mersey.

"You see it every time you go into town. We've been to see countless bands there that you look up to and you wonder 'how have they got there, how do they do that?'.

"And then when it was first touted to us that we were going to do it, that was just unbelievable. You can't really comprehend it. It took a few weeks to