Band Line Up 2019
BLIND RIVER
Playing: Thursday, 8th August 2019
Stage: Sophie Lancaster Stage
Formed at the start of 2017, Blind River are a 5-piece, heavy rock band, created to bring classic, pure, riff-driven song writing to the fore.
Having become friends while travelling across the UK and Europe as members of touring bands such as Godsized, The Earls Of Mars and Pig Iron, the band have brought together the experience and expertise gained from hard work and determination, to give birth to this foot-stomping, fist-raising, rock n roll experience.
The band have been steadily growing a dedicated fan base using the tried and tested method of constantly playing every sweatbox bar and beer soaked venue they could find, writing and fine tuning their songs in front of an ever-increasing audience as they went.
This work ethic led to appearances at Bloodstock Festival, Desertfest, Metal Brew Festival, Hard Rock Hell Festival, and
supports for the likes of Grand Magus, Voodoo Six and Warrior Soul during an unprecedented first year in existence.
The band have recently begun selling out their own headline shows at venues such as The Black Heart, Camden.
Their method of test-driving material on the road has created one of the tightest live bands on the circuit, resulting in a 4 day recording session at Middle Farm Studios where the band recorded, mixed and mastered a complete 10 track album with producer Peter Miles.
This was self released in May 2018. Since then the band have toured with Marco Mendoza and opened for bands such as Anvil and Bonafide. A slot at Hard Rock Hell 2018 is confirmed for November, along with opening slots for The Supersuckers, HawkLords, Hogjaw and an appearance alongside Ginger Wildheart at Croydon Rocks 2018.
The band received a 9/10 live review in June’s Powerplay magazine, a 9/10 album review in July’s Powerplay magazine and a full page interview in the August edition of Powerplay magazine
Their song “Freedom Dealer” was included on the covermount CD of the August edition of Classic Rock magazine and the band
received a full page interview in September’s Classic Rock magazine.
