Black Country New Road live at Wide Awake Festival 2023

Black Country New Road kick off our coverage from Wide Awake Festival 2023.

Black Country New Road were at Brockwell Park in London on May 27th for Wide Awake with live music a theme of their year so far following the release of the band’s Live At Bush Hall album back in February.

“We had concerns from live sessions we’ve seen or done in the past,” guitarist Luke Mark said of it. “They are very obviously clumped together visually from multiple performances. ”

That can take you out of the performance and make it seem artificial and like it’s not actually live. So we came up with the idea to make the three nights look visually distinct from one another. To scratch the idea of trying to disguise anything. We wanted it to be very honest and let people know that we had three goes at it. This isn’t just us playing the whole thing non-stop.

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