Fri 6 February 2026 8:00pm

Brave Rival, Backbone Blues Band

at The Facebar, Reading

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Brave Rival

Brave Rival are the South East’s rip-roaring rock and blues machine. Hailing from Portsmouth, the 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.

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Backbone Blues Band

Backbone are a tight four/five piece blues outfit of drums, bass, guitars and piano/organ. They play a mixture of fantastic covers and originals, and try to choose their sets to include old favourites alongside interesting, less well known numbers to really get their audiences’ feet tapping. With a tight rhythm section and truly creative keys and guitars to back up gritty, soulful vocals, the sound is punchy when it rocks and delightfully driven when it swings. Backbone have developed a style which allows space for each other in the music and it delivers a really fat and rounded sound, perfect to either dance to, or just sit back and enjoy.

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