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Blooming Brilliant
Blooming Brilliant

n a tale of two sides, many believe rock music, in particular the British scene, to be in
Irude health at the moment with a growing number of talented musicians forging
their reputation and establishing growing fan bases, while at the other end of the scale
some fear for the genre’s future, in particular because of its dwindling amount of fresh
festival-headlining calibre megastars. But surely somewhere in among the rising wave of
new talent will come the next big thing and there are many with the potential to be just
that. Among those are Midlands-based The Bad Flowers who, with debut full-length album
‘Starting Gun’ released earlier this year, are coiled and poised in their starter’s blocks with
their eyes firmly glued on the finishing line and the chequered flag.
ometimes in life you can be missing the release of their full-length album brought incredibly busy, Karl to talk about the excit-
Sone ingredient. Something so simple a significant step forward, and a country- ing times for The Bad Flowers.
and straightforward, but something so im- wide tour opening for fellow rising Brit rock-
portant it can make all the difference when ers Stone Broken at the start of 2018 helped t was a huge gamble for Karl to join
you identify it and for The Bad Flowers the bolster their confidence and fan base and Iforces with Tom and Dale. “Tom and
missing piece of their jigsaw may well have played a fundamental part in the trio having Dale have been best friends for, I think, 14 or
been drummer Karl Selickis who joined long- the opportunity to embark on their biggest 15 years and prior to me going for an audi-
time friends and bandmates Tom Leighton adventure yet, a co-headline tour of the UK tion with them I had met them once and they
and Dale Tonks to complete the threesome alongside Federal Charm which also saw the are based around 50 miles north of where I
around four years ago and quickly make shows opened by Those Damn Crows, an- live.
headway in achieving their long-term ambi- other example of the new and rising talent “Prior to the audition I met them around
tions. from these small shores. seven years ago. At the time I was playing in
Their self-titled debut EP was a small With much on the horizon, Black Velvet a band based in Rugby called Coldstone
stepping stone to where they are today, but joins up with a very excited, not to mention who I was with for a little bit and at that time
THE BAD FLOWERS