YMMV / Enter Shikari

• Anvilicious: Once A Flash Flood of Colour came out, it was clear that Enter Shikari lyrics had become less indirect about their messages, using more forward, obvious language than in Take to the Skies or Common Dreads.
• Fan Community Nickname: Lions.
• Fan Nickname: The Shikari Ferrari, and the Shikari Shuffle◊, a brief dance from the "Destabilise" music video.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • Enter Shikari's fandom has near-perfect relations with the one of Hadouken!. The bands have a polarizing difference in main music genres (Enter Shikari is post-hardcore, Hadouken! is new rave/grime), they signed to different labels (Enter Shikari to Hopeless and their own label Ambush Reality, Hadouken! to Kitsuné and Ministry of Sound) and have never toured together (we even doubt they know each other). Yet, the fans of both bands are very, very close to each other.
  • If you meet an Enter Shikari and/or Hadouken! fan, chances are they might also like Pendulum and/or The Qemists.
  • They have a lot of fans who like Area 11, due to the bands getting along well and touring together.
  • With the fanbases of metalcore bands in general, such as Architects and While She Sleeps. While the band produces music in many genres far removed from metalcore, they still tend to release louder tracks from time to time (such as "The Void Stares Back", which came off the back of the rather non-metal Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible album), often collaborate with bands in the metalcore scene and have friendly relations with many of them. Enter Shikari liveshows, even with the wide exploration of genres in recent years, are also still known for their intensity and plentiful mosh pits.
• Funny Moments:
  • The band released a Cover Version of Destabilise, one of their own songs in the style of a 1940's jazz band.
  • The video for "The Paddington Frisk". The ending dance in particular also doubles as Black Comedy.
• Growing the Beard: Around 2008, Rou cut his hair short and grew some stubble. This signalled the transformation of the band into a more serious, political act.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The song "Anaesthetist" is a plea for people not to vote for the Conservative party, as Rou feared they'd sell off the NHS. Not only did the Conservatives win a MAJORITY in 2015, guess exactly what they're doing?
• Misattributed Song: "My Darkest Hour" (that song that goes "I am tired and broken") isn't by them, contrary to popular belief. It's actually by a band called Scary Kids Scaring Kids. They're American whereas Enter Shikari are very British.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: A few fans were let down by Common Dreads as it moved more from ambiguous lyrics and Post-Hardcore with Trance elements to a more Dubstep/Drum and bass feel and political lyrics.
  • Vindicated by History: This feeling is pretty much gone now.
  • Both The Spark and Nothing Is TRUE & Everything Is Possible elicited this response from a portion of the fanbase, as both are records that focus more on introspective, electric-synthetic and occasionally even pop-influenced songs. While this alienated fans who were just there for the more post-hardcore/metalcore oriented material from the early records, it also gained the band plenty of new fans. And as the band would later prove, they can still produce loud songs.

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