Ahead of next month’s new album What We Do To Feel, Lonely The Brave have released “an exploration of the commitment of relationships and the desire to…
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Despite working on the frontline in a pandemic, Lonely The Brave have found hope in music
Mo and Bush from Lonely The Brave risk their lives daily on the frontline in the NHS, but their new album has provided an escape and hope in even the darkest of times.
Words: James Hickie
We’ve every right to think 2021 is the worst year since the last one. In the grips of another national lockdown, with 90,000 people in the UK dead from coronavirus and an average of 1,000 losing their lives daily, it’s difficult to see an end to the bleakness, even with the vaccine being rolled out to high-priority groups. It’s a situation taking its toll on everyone, including musicians, though few within their ranks have witnessed the true cost of the pandemic like Andrew Bushen and Gavin Edgeley.
Album review: Lonely The Brave – The Hope List
After weathering the storm, Lonely The Brave set forth on a promising new chapter with third album, The Hope List…
Words: James MacKinnon
Much has changed in the world of Lonely The Brave since releasing their ambitious second album Things Will Matter in 2016. Internally, the departure of co-founding vocalist Dave Jakes in 2018 sent shockwaves through the camp. Their erstwhile frontman’s impressionistic lyrics and Peter Gabriel-alike voice seemed an inseparable element of the Cambridge quartet’s appeal: a voice like a mighty oak which stood firm within the band’s wind-strewn post-rock vistas, yet belied a chronically shy performer. Outside, global pressures that have weighed on us all – Brexit, environmental crisis, a reality TV hog in the White House – seemed to hint at a fracturing world. According to guitarist Mark Trotter, there was never a question of Lonely The Brave soldiering on. Even so, less turbulent