![]() Growling bass and surging drums present on “Where Are You Now?” was met with a loud cheer which only dissipated when the 2000-person strong crowd began screaming the chorus back to the band.įor its part, “Lights Out” is a blistering rock song that wouldn’t be out of place on a Queens of the Stone Age album and is perhaps the best example of the finely poised struggle between melody and muscular riffing that has generated the band such wide acclaim. Starting with crowd-favourites “Where Are You Now?” and “Lights Out”, off their latest album “How Did We Get So Dark?”, the band did their best to warm up an audience that were being absolutely blasted by the venues air conditioning (I spent the entire gig in a jacket). From the get go Kerr, on vocals and a bass that he wielded as a lead instrument and drummer Ben Thatcher, a picture of precision, were in total control of the crowd and their performance. Teaches me for not reading my emails properly.īefore I had time to reflect on my rather expensive Uber, Kerr’s booming bass ripped through the amps, whipping the crowd into a fever pitch that wouldn’t let up until the lights came up almost two hours later. Unfortunately for me, the stadium-sized spectacle that the band were going to deliver was actually taking place at the Logan Campbell Centre, otherwise known as the somewhat run-down chilly bin in Greenlane. At least that is what I thought as I arrived there in an Uber at just after 8.15pm. ![]() They’re getting extended play on Kiwi rock stations and would happily have been at home in Auckland’s Spark Arena. This is a band who is well and truly having a moment. Since breaking out with their self-titled debut album in 2014 the band have been nominated for a bucketload of music awards (the prestigious Mercury Prize and a Brit Award for Best British Group among them) and have been playing to packed arenas while touring with the likes of the Queens of the Stone Age. I was lucky to even make the start of the gig if I’m being honest. On odd, but welcome choice for a bass and drum heavy band that float somewhere between The Black Keys and The White Stripes in a musical gap that I didn’t even know existed. I arrived just before 9pm and was treated to the spectacle of the British duo sauntering on to the stage to sound of KC and the Sunshine Band’s Get Down Tonight. Not bad for a band with only two albums under their belts. Not that they needed any prompting – this was an audience that at times threatened to tear the room off the building. How Did We Get So Dark? is available to pre-order digitally, and on CD, vinyl and cassette.We’re gonna get drunk and have a good fuckin’ time together”, Royal Blood’s lead singer and bassist Mike Kerr informed the crowd packed into Auckland’s Logan Campbell Centre last night. The band began cutting the album in Brussels last November with producer Joylon Thomas and finished it London with co-producer Tom Dalgety. Royal Blood wrote the instrumentals for How Did We Get So Dark? during sessions in Brighton, England, Los Angeles and Nashville. How Did We Get So Dark? follows Royal Blood’s 2014 self-titled debut, which debuted in the Top Five of the Billboard 200 and made fast fans out of Jimmy Page and the Foo Fighters, who tapped the band as an opener on their 2015 tour. During a raucous instrumental section, the room is cast in a deep red light and Thatcher and Kerr continue to play in the waist high water as dancers move around them. ![]() ![]() As the pair hit the first chorus of “Lights Out,” a horde of bodies burst out of invisible pools on the floor, ceiling and walls. The clip finds bassist/singer Mike Kerr and drummer Ben Thatcher performing the song in an empty room that slowly fills with water. British rock duo Royal Blood unveiled a striking video for “Lights Out,” the lead single off their upcoming album, How Did We Get So Dark?, out June 16th via Warner Bros.
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