The first time While She Sleeps ever played Alexandra Palace, it was at Vans Warped Tour UK, in November 2013. On a bill featuring Enter Shikari, Rise Against and Parkway Drive, Sleeps performed in the middle third of the day with an incandescence that underlined their then-growing reputation as British metal’s next great thing. A year earlier, Bury Tomorrow had themselves played the festival. Singer Dani Winter-Bates recalls their small stage not having the luxury of a proper loading bay like the main stages… “We had to bring all our gear in through the kitchens!” he laughs today. Two months shy of a decade to the day since Sleeps made their first turn there, they are returning to North London’s grandest venue as headliners, their biggest UK show to date unde...