In Photos: Wild Beasts + BRAIDS @ O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, London (23.11.11)

2011 has arguably been Wild Beasts' most successful year to date, with the band's chart-bothering third album, Smother, having done for Shakespeare-referencing indie what N-Dubz have been doing for mediocrity for many years now.

The Domino stalwarts recently completed a fourteen-date UK tour, the centrepiece of which was a triumphant brace of shows at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire. You can read Adrian Cross's account of the sold-out first night in W12 right here - after you've had a gawk at our slideshow of Richard Gray's photos from the gig below (which also includes a few shots of experimental Canadian outfit BRAIDS, who supported).