Colchester rock and blues duo When Rivers Meet play The Live Rooms with their six-piece The Backbone Tour show.
When Rivers Meet bring their Backbone Tour to The Live Rooms on Friday 4 December, a six-piece show that pulls from the songs that have shaped their career. The band is a Colchester-based husband-and-wife duo, Grace and Aaron Bond, who've built their name as one of the UK's leading independent rock and blues acts. They made history as the first independent rock and blues band to break into the UK Official Album Charts Top 10 with Aces Are High in 2023, and they've since released a fourth studio album, Addicted to You, in May 2025.
They're UK Blues Hall of Fame inductees with four number-one albums to their name, three of which topped the Official Jazz & Blues Albums Chart. Three of their records have reached the UK Top 20, with Addicted to You coming in at number four and Rhythm Rust & Static at number twenty. The Backbone Tour reimagines that catalogue as a six-piece show, blending blues, rock, Americana and folk, and drawing from early favourites through to the tracks that defined their journey. They've also taken the sound across Europe and the USA.
It's a full-band version of what's usually a duo at the core, so the set will sound a bit bigger than their records. The songs they're playing span their career, from the early material that got them started to the newer stuff from Addicted to You. If you've followed them since the beginning, you'll hear the old favourites alongside the recent releases; if you're just coming to them now, it's a good way to get a broad look at what they do.
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Doors open at 19:00 at The Live Rooms, 1 Station Road, Chester, CH1 3DR, in Room L1, with a curfew of 23:00. Tickets are £27.50.
