Band Line Up 2023
DEADBLONDESTARS
Playing: Saturday, 12th August 2023
Stage: Hopical Storm New Blood Stage
South Yorkshire grunge/alternative rockers DeadBlondeStars have been performing
together for a number of years, building a reputation as one of the area’s
finest live rock bands. They released numerous EPs since their inception in
2012, before finally releasing their well-regarded eponymous debut album in May
2020 (7/10, Classic Rock Magazine).
With the world grinding to a halt shortly after the release
of their album, DeadBlondeStars took
to the airwaves in pursuit of wider acclaim, with radio play reaching far and
wide across the globe. Like every independent band, few opportunities for live
performance during the COVID 19 pandemic left the band disconnected from their
audience. This led them to film live performances of tracks from the album and
distribute them via social media. The enforced downtime also gave the band time
to write, refine and record around 30 new songs, before whittling them down to
an album’s worth of new material.
Once live music returned, the band secured slots at some of
the UK’s finest grassroots music festivals in 2022, including Rock & Blues
in Derbyshire, Rockin’ The Bowl in Sheffield and Wildfire in Scotland. Continued
involvement with a number of independent radio stations helped the band reach a
new audience, with the listeners of Great Music Stories Radio voting DeadBlondeStars their band of the year
for 2022 (previous winners include Massive Wagons, Those Damn Crows, Scarlet
Rebels and Amongst Liars).
Moving into 2023, and with the inertia of a global pandemic
fading into the distance, the new DeadBlondeStars
album “Metamorphosis” was released in February 2023 to critical acclaim from UK
and overseas music media. The band have gone on to secure slots at several
grassroots music festivals this year and, following their victory in the
Sheffield “Metal 2 The Masses” competition, will be performing their biggest
show to date at Bloodstock Open Air festival.
