The Blinders bring their Brave New World

"The Energy And Message For The Future".

In February, "Promoter Friends" will stage a tour through most of the month. The band are new, and virtually unheard of outside of Britain's punky underground, yet this feels like one of 2018's key road shows. The most poetic, theatric and photogenic musical prospect in years, The Blinders, are verging on cultdom (with those in the know). Their inflaming sound makes them the perfect band for these (end of) days. Not short of considered and articulate opinion, they self-unleashed the Independence Day anthem, 'Brave New World', and created a punkadelic parallel dimension. See this 30 seconds video by the band's visual collaborator, Nasty Man Creations, for your nearest show. Most are 14+, individual links to tickets at the band's FB page. (continues/...)

Quite a few of TheZineUK team are already believers... Music is of the utmost importance to life, social cohesion, everything, to quite a few of us, it's obvious that The Blinders are a credible phenomenom with wide appeal.

"The reason why music has always played an important no matter what time,is because music has always somehow reflected the current issues and emotions of ourselves and those around us.

The concept of making music about values you care about, is back and it's not a phase or a fad, it's a natural evolution of events and has returned with a vengeance; mirroring the issues everyone on the planet are dealing with right now.

The revolution has to begin within the mind, so it's important we have music to radiate that. We need bands like The Blinders who certainly do just that. These groups have fans and new listeners going "Yes, me too. Enough is enough. The time for change, something different, is now."

Monefa Walker

The Blinders mean a lot to what feels like a collective of believers, including our situationist story. To quote Dizzy Spell's in depth interview article from Spring 2017; "I'd seen The Blinders live before, it was a life altering experience. An energy that screams "This. Means. War." and makes you forget the world of shit-politics and watered down rock 'n' roll remedies and actually look up upon a stage, and see a hero."

Their stunning presence could grace any size stage, as not only does almost daemonic passion take Matt Neale, Charlie McGough and Thomas Haywood over on stage, but they are armed with an impressive musicality from basic instruments and equipment, to back up their stylish delivery. It's not too perfect, there are fuck ups some times. This is the real deal in an age of austerity, not a rock n roll fantasy. Their rawness, recorded, is underlaid with classical composition tones. Their DIY releases have a "phat" sound courtesy of producer, Gavin Monaghan, which does justice to the mighty aural sensation of the live experience.

Not yet listened? No hurry, but there are a growing number of music fans who admit to being a tad obsessed when they do. Some of the feedback at this seminal stage is so superlative drenched that it seems too be good to be true. How can one band remind diverse people of such a spectrum of influences? An early criticism of this is that early fandom can often be cynically misconstrued as "hype". Fear not, no mainstream media, marketing/advertising teams etc. were harmed in the making of this fan base. Word of mouth is just that. The 20th century style "jungle telegraph" and modern social networking mirror public opinion.

Additionally, the independent media in support don't tend to waste much time, energy and space moaning about things they don't like in their articles. There's twitter for that. The Blinders feel like a delicious secret. It's not a hipster clique thing; the gigs are about inclusion, and digging the immense dynamics that they are able to conjure. Despite this being something completely new that the band's youthful peers totally get, there is no typical fan. Media taste makers are alongside everybody else at every level, in coming on board with this music. Our studio snap shots in this article are from the 2017 live music session that The Blinders did for one of the UK's key new music gurus, John Kennedy of Radio X, an early supporter of the band. Three wizards brought their magic down from Manchester with them to Central London.

Not long after announcing the February 2018 dates, The Blinders went into creative partnership with ModernSkyUK and have plans for the start of next year, which the shows will be part of. The Brave New World of The Blinders and their colourful friends will come to life. Follow the documentation of their story. It's a gateway to the artists, media, events that have made such a difference over the last couple of years, especially. It couldn't be better timed. We really need this positivity.

Unashamed of their roots or their intelligence, The Blinders are a rare British national treasure. Not seeing themselves as any movement, they are on a (focused) roll with brand new songs this year. 'Brave New World' and another enormous new TUNE 'Le Etat C'Est Moi' (excuse any french spelling typos in translation for "I Am The State') with it's 'I've got divine right' motif raged over bass menace and tripped power beats. This is major classic rock.

Let's leave the last word on The Blinders with the acclaimed photographer whose image is on their tour poster above; Nidge Luhg Sanders of Trust A Fox Photography; He tipped TheZineUK off last Summer about the band, and what the only Fox News you can trust says now, makes total sense to us, and anybody that feels the same: "The band I've waited for since the Clash, the energy and message for the future."