Secret Rivals

The band played at festivals including Bestival, Liverpool Sound City and Wychwood in the last year to promote the ‘Make Do And Mend‘ mini-album and ‘Make Do And Mend (Part 2)‘ EP. The single ‘Tonight Matthew…‘ was Rob Da Bank’s “Tune of the Day” on BBC Radio 1, while ‘Once More With Heart‘ has received airplay on BBC Radio 6 Music, featured on numerous Sky Sports broadcasts, and had its video exclusively streamed on NME.com. Secret Rivals first made waves with debut EP ‘Start Fires‘, picked up for 6 Music plays by Steve Lamacq and Tom Robinson, and their energetic live performances have been seen on stages alongside Summer Camp, The Big Pink, The Chapman Family, La Faro, The Rural Alberta Advantage, and Wilder. THE BAND SPLIT IN MAY 2013 x x x x x x x x x x x x x The band’s debut album, funded through a successful fan pledge campaign was released April 2013 and is free to download on Soundcloud. x x x x x x x x x x x x x “80s British punk sheen with catchy choruses and shared vocals between Jamie and Clouds, highlighting their obvious chemistry.” - BBC Oxford “…forraged around in the Los Campesinos undergrowth, producing a series of sweetly-stabbing singy-shouty pop nuggets.” - Steve Lamacq “Great band from Oxford. Indie guitars, pounding drums and soaring melodies that would be at home in the indie clubs” - Soccer AM “Tune of the day” - Rob Da Bank, Radio 1 “Their split boy-girl vocals are reminiscent of Prolapse or Los Campesinos but a wee bit darker… The Cribs going on in there as well” - Gill Mills, Amazing Radio “Power pop perfectness… The boy/girl shared vocals works well accompanying the punkish jagged guitars… Infectious and definitely worth a listen. Lots of listens.” - This Is A Popscene “Energetic, open-hearted and pleasingly free of pretension. At this rate they won’t stay secret for much longer.” - Nightshift magazine "Sweetly-Stabbing Singy-Shouty Pop Nuggets" (Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music) SECRET RIVALS SPLIT IN MAY 2013. ALL SONGS ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD ON SOUNCLOUD x