Toured in the middle of the summer and through the dead of Canadian winter. We’ve spent a few months on the road since then, played some cool shows, went through some line up changes. Sara: Since Monsters came out we’ve pretty much just been touring. GUFF: Tell us a bit about what’s been going on since releasing your album Monsters last year. Lucky for me, I had the chance to catch up with Sara before she hits the road. With Sara trading her organ for guitar, and Jake on both bass drum and guitar, the pair will soon be off on their biggest adventure yet.

Stripping down to an intense duo set, Sara Elizabeth and Jake Seaward will be bringing their stoner rock blues riffs and seductively powerful vocals to cities throughout all of Canada and the U.S. Elizabeth’s voice is next level, but could benefit from a backing and atmosphere that matches it wholeheartedly. Although lead guitarist Jake Seaward’s riffs are monstrous earworms, to be fair, there is no distraction from the real pull of Bloody Diamonds, which is Elizabeth’s bewitching stage presence.īy the end of the night, Bloody Diamonds was tired, but they left everything on the stage, pulling out all stops possible and leaving exhausted. Elizabeth’s voice distracts from the band’s mostly straight-up alternative guitar rock enough that onlookers needn’t focus on much else.

Although she doesn’t stray much from her main trick-an otherworldly, carefully wavering wail-it’s so incredibly effective that it doesn’t matter. There are very few people with pipes that come close to her controlled-yet-wild dynamic. The real story with Bloody Diamonds, hands down, is lead singer Sara Elizabeth. Hailing from Halifax, Bloody Diamonds slayed the youngsters hovering in the sweaty atmosphere of the Bovine on Good Friday, flooring them with their brand of heavy riff-rock. SynBrit Rating 4/5 - Danger!!! Canadian Content Miss them when they pass through your town at your peril. Bloody Diamonds spent a lot of time touring last year and it shows, their no holds barred approach to Goth Rock is as complex as their musicianship is excellent. There was even time for an encore, ‘Nightmare’ with its slow build into a raging spitting vitriolic conclusion, brilliant, there we said it. ‘Baby Don’t Be Nice’ could have been taken from the film Cabaret as the dark noir set continued and the organ base for ‘Twisted’ was excellent. Their next number ‘Rose Tattoo’ took no prisoners with an amazing haunting 60’s spy theme guitar riff that really worked. Opening with a storming version of their superb latest single ‘Skin and Bones’ (see video link below), they quickly moved onto ‘She Ain’t Pretty’ and then ‘Monsters’, which framed the stunning ethereal and dramatic lead vocals to perfection. 'No Relaxo, we’ll sleep when we’re dead… Canadian Music Week 2015: Rancho Relaxo – May 8th'īloody Diamonds: OK, confession time, it was the thought of seeing this former Halifax based band, who consist of Sara Elizabeth (Vocals, Keys), Jake Seaward (Guitar), Jordan Quinn (Bass) and Andrew Wiseman (Drums), that brought us to Rancho, that and the fact that they delivered a stonking set at the Bovine this time last year, but as a two piece.

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