Bristol, UK Pre-Brexit trio Sapphire Blues crank out the angry / reflective "Good Morning Britain"

AP Track Review

It is interesting that the Bristol, UK 3 piece punk / post punk outfit Sapphire Blues define themselves as a "Pre-Brexit" trio and why not, as lines are being drawn it is good to define where you stand. On the track Good Morning Britain, Sam Lance Jones (vox, guitar) sings,"I wanted to watch the horror so I turned on the news...GOOD MORNING BRITAIN" in his visceral snarling vox. I love Jones' voice and likened it to early Paul Weller (the Jam) but while Weller had a decidedly cynical crushing push in his vox, Jones feels (in some ways) more angry / reflective of how things, in Britain, in the United States just never seem to get better for the masses but, instead, just for the rarefied rich and powerful. When Jones, wails "I want to leave the country" we can all relate. The boys, Jones, Harry Beaver (bass) and Chris Thompson (drums) crank out their jagged noise with pummeling barrages of heavy chord play and drilling guitar, bass and drum lines. I love the musical discourse here. Love it. 

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Robb Donker



THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:

Pre-Brexit band from Bristol, UK. 'Good Morning Britain' is inspired by the not so United Kingdom.

Sapphire Blues are a trio from Bristol, UK who formed after meeting at a pub in 2016. After a line up change in 2018 the band now consists of Sam Lance Jones (vox, guitar), Harry Beaver (bass) and Chris Thompson (drums, producer). The band have played numerous gigs in and out of Bristol at venues such as The Louisiana which they are set to headline on Saturday April 13th, The Lanes which they sold 150 tickets for, support slots at the moles in Bath and at festivals such as Dot 2 Dot and Lakefest which the band opened on the main stage. 

letithappenblog:

‘Alternating between time on the dole and a dead end job to make ends meet left Sam with some space to tap into Jean-Paul Sarte’s philosophical work “Nausea”, in an effort to make sense of the anxiety and confusion of everyday life and the current stressed political climate. And in many respects the track takes the themes of Nausea and puts them in musical form. The Sartre who wrote: “I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.” would recognise these.