Royal Blood make welcome return
Celebrate Royal Blood concert by winning latest CD
Wow! Not many of Royal Bloods loyal fans didn’t get the answer to our earlier question: what is the relationship between UK music sensations Royal Blood and the number 2046 in relation to their upcoming visit to our fair shores?
It was of course the number of sleeps that will have elapsed by the time they hit the stage at Spark Arena for their muchanticipated return.
The news gets even better in that we are offering up a chance for you to win a copy of their latest album Back To The Water Below on CD as the ideal precursor to their upcoming show.
It’s a real ripper and contains ten great tracks including Mountains At Midnight, Pull Me Through and Wave – all of which have received airings at recent shows as they have unleashed their extremely popular brand of rock on eagerly awaiting audiences.
Royal Blood first strutted their stuff to a Kiwi audience buzzing with excitement at the Logan Campbell Centre on May 1, 2018 – serving up such top tunes as Out Of The Black and Ten Tonne Skeleton to rapturous response. They were just two albums deep into their career then and what an impression they made.
Reviewer Sarah Kidd from Ambient Light perhaps said it best when commenting: “It is almost incomprehensible how these two men are managing to make such a rich and allencompassing sound by themselves; Royal Blood of course being known for their musicianship and not their reliance on backing tracks. Watching Kerr play his bass and yet somehow manage to fill the room with both the sweet highs of a guitar and yet simultaneously the bass notes one would expect to hear is nothing short of watching magic. While the technologically savvy know that he is splitting his signal via the series of guitar and bass amps just behind him - using his preferred pedals to not only complete the split but to add an octave or shift the tone, how exactly he has managed to do this to such perfection has become the eighth wonder of the world.”
Fans well remember too, the small details – such as the mention of drummer Ben Thatcher’s blue cup – that essential harbinger of hydration – apparently incredibly necessary to the smooth running of the night’s proceedings.
Fast forward five years and counting (2046 days by show day), and we see Royal Blood now four albums deep and with a mind-blowing number of tracks featuring in The Rock 2000 countdown.
Songs such as the afore mentioned Out Of The Black and Ten Tonne Skeleton and another earlier number Little Monster, through to newer stuff such as Loose Change, How Did We Get So Dark, Lights Out, Troubles Coming, Boilermaker and Honeybrains.
Just what exactly Royal Blood will belt out on the night for your listening pleasure from their vast array of material is anyone’s guess. There’s only one way to know for sure – be there!