Classic Rock

Rival Sons

“It’s been cool to get to know the [Pressure & Time] songs all over again. Some of them had never been played live, or very rarely.”

When Rival Sons kick off the UK and Ireland leg of their tour, in Norwich on June 27, it will have been 10 years and 364 days since the release of their second album, Pressure & Time, which will be the focus of the shows. “It’s been cool to get to know those songs all over again,” guitarist Scott Holiday tells Classic Rock. But by the time the last note rings out at London’s Kentish Town Forum in July we might be less than six months from their seventh full-length studio release.

Each of us suffered during lockdown, but how challenging were those times for you?

It was tough because we were in the cycle of our most successful album [2019’s which had brought us two Grammy nominations, and everybody in the band

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