The Blinders - Live at The Thekla, Bristol - 27th September 2021

Momentum is a tricky thing. Barely noticeable when you’re embroiled in a wave of it, but much harder to get back when you’re not.

Back in 2018/2019, The Blinders had momentum. Debut album Columbia, packed as it was with twisted tales of an alternative world, was positively received and their incendiary live shows were garnering them high word-of-mouth praise before several unrelated issues bumped them slightly off-course.

Their conflicted decision to allow the use of early single ‘Brave New World’ in a William Hill commercial was frowned upon in some quarters (by those not appreciative of the lack of money in the music industry, mainly) and, by their own admission, it sparked a series of internal conversations that nearly split the band up.

Then, in mid-2020, original drummer Matt Neale left shortly after the release of second album Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath, which itself was met with a more muted response than their debut.

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