BRAVE RIVAL Tickets

BRAVE RIVAL ARE THE SOUTH EAST’S RIP-ROARING ROCK AND BLUES MACHINE

Hailing from Portsmouth, the six time UK Blues Award Nominated band features the powerful and beautiful twin vocals of Chloe Josephine and Lindsey Bonnick. On lead guitar, providing dramatic guitar solos and crunching rock riffs is Ed “The Shred” Clarke, and holding it all together is the rhythmic backbone, the self-proclaimed engine room of Billy Dedman (bass) and Donna Peters (drums).

Drawing influence from the likes of John Mayer, Aretha Franklin, Heart, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin and Tedeschi Trucks, Brave Rival offer a style and sound that you’ve always known, and yet never heard before.

Brave Rival’s highly anticipated debut album “Life’s Machine” arrived May 2022 to critical acclaim. Emerging Rocks Bands Magazine said it best when they described the album as “Boss blues energy from start to finish”. Similarly, Powerplay Magazine finished their ten out of ten review by saying that “Brave Rival have unleashed one lean, mean and well oiled machine!” The album appeared on multiple end of year, best album lists including Get Ready To Rock Radio, Rock & Blues Muse, NWOCR, Wrinkly Rockers Club, Blues Rock Review and Great Music Stories and was the 4th most played in 2022 on the IBBA charts.

Combined with a 2022 UK Blues Nomination for Best Emerging Band already under their cap, the band began 2023 with 5 nominations in the 2023 UK Blues Awards. Including ‘UK blues band of the year’, ‘UK acoustic act of the year’, ‘UK blues vocalist of the year’ , ‘UK instrumentalist of the year’ , ‘Jules Fothergil young UK blues artist of the year’.

Tipped as one of Joe Bonamassa’s “favourite discoveries this year” the future is looking incredibly bright for this young band on a meteoric rise, who are taking the world by storm. Their unique combination of beautifully harmonic, soulful vocals, epic guitar solos, pounding drums and powerful bass serves up an infectious sound that is not to be missed.

"What Heart might sound like if they joined the Tedeschi Trucks Band"
Classic Rock Magazine

"A FLAWLESS CONVERGENCE OF ROCK, BLUES AND SOUL…"
Raw Ramp

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