Live music review: Chvrches play a blinder at the Olympia

Chvrches played a blinding gig at the Olympia in Dublin last night. Ed Power was there to review it.

Pop and pathos collided headlong as Chvrches delivered an electro-fuelled sermon to a room heaving with true believers. It proved a bracing and emotion-drenched evening, the Glasgow band’s mix of indie confessional and club-adjacent floor-fillers landing to maximum impact.