Barricades Rise

BARRICADES RISE was born out of the songwriting partnership behind the rock band ‘Idle Hollow’. As a subdivision of ‘Idle Hollow’ Jonathan Coates and Michael McEntee started playing acoustic gigs in and around the midlands playing stripped down full band songs and a few extra tracks that never really fitted into the ‘Idle Hollow’ set. As more and more new songs were being written strictly for the acoustic gigs the act started to shape its own identity and received great praise from both peers and music lovers.

In early 2008 Jonathan and Michael started working on an EP consisting of their acoustic material. This truly cemented a divide between ‘Idle Hollow’ and what was then simply known as ‘Idle Hollow Acoustic’ thus, BARRICADES RISE was conceived. The debut EP ‘BLUEPRINTS’ which is set for release on the 21st June 2008, has allowed them to truly shape the acoustic bases of the songs into the visions they had all along. Constantly gigging the acoustic set and disregarding the set etiquette of the normal acoustic acts around the scene, these boys are truly a must see for any self respecting music fan.




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