This ultimately led to me getting a presale code from the band for the Nov 11th gig. I just knew I had to buy the album, which led me entering a competition from the band to win a Royal Blood themed bass. I discovered this band upon hearing they were streaming their debut album for free on iTunes days before release, and instantly fell in love, without even realising this four-or-five-piece-sounding band was in fact just produced by Mike Kerr on the bass and vocals, and Ben Thatcher on drums. The pair will be on the road in support of it for the foreseeable future. Their second single, ‘Little Monster’, as well as the B-side form their first, ‘Come On Over’, generated considerable hype in early 2014, but it was a slew of high-profile festival slots at the likes of T in the Park, Reading and Leeds and Radio 1’s Big Weekend that propelled them to the success they’d taste later in the year their self-titled debut, released in late August 2014, smashed sales records, becoming the fastest-selling British debut rock album in three years. Later that year, they confirmed that they’d support the Sheffield titans in London the following year, and also dropped a debut single, ‘Out of the Black’. They only started playing music together in early 2013, but began to pick up a head of steam after playing just a handful of shows in June of that year, Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders - who has form on this front - wore one of the band’s shirts onstage during their Glastonbury headline performance, before the pair had even released a single. There are meteoric rises, and then there are the kind of success stories that Royal Blood can lay claim to.
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