IN FOCUS// Knocked Loose with Despize, Soft Kill, & Choir Boy @ Rescue Rooms, Nottingham

IN FOCUS// Knocked Loose with Despize, Soft Kill, & Choir Boy @ Rescue Rooms, Nottingham 1
Credit: Alina Salihbekova

Despize, Soft Kill, Choir Boy and Knocked Loose are four bands of different genres that will perform at the Outbreak Festival this year. On the 21st of June, all four came to Nottingham and gave Rescue Rooms a little taste of what they’ll bring to the festival. Despize, whose music style resembles Knocked Loose, came on stage first with their hardcore punk set with loud vocals and aggressive instruments.

IN FOCUS// Knocked Loose @ Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
Credit: Alina Salihbekova

Next up was a post-punk set from Soft Kill. Their performance was very different from the previous band. It was calm, yet powerful and dance-inducing. The vocalist, Tobias Sinclair, shared a personal story about him being sober for many years and said that life always has a positive side to it.

IN FOCUS// Knocked Loose @ Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
Credit: Alina Salihbekova

After them, it was the dream-pop band Choir Boy’s turn to perform. Their sound resembled the 80’s style of pop. Adam Klopp’s vocals and performance were haunting and opera-esque. Neon lights and the sounds of the saxophone and synthesizers were very atmospheric.

IN FOCUS// Knocked Loose @ Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
Credit: Alina Salihbekova

And finally, Knocked Loose took the stage. A couple of hours before the gig started, the band announced through their social media that their vocalist, Bryan Garris, will not make it to the gig due to ‘travel complications’. The band’s guitarist Isaac Hale took the role of a vocalist, which turned out to be extremely powerful and exciting.

IN FOCUS// Knocked Loose @ Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
Credit: Alina Salihbekova

It was a great chance to see how every member of the band is exceptionally talented and that they will continue performing no matter the circumstances. We applaud the band’s spirit.

Knocked Loose setlist in Nottingham:

  • Where Light Divides the Holler
  • Trapped in the Grasp of a Memory
  • God Knows
  • Denied by Fate
  • Billy No Mates
  • Belleville (With “Forget Your Name” intro)
  • Deadringer
  • Oblivion’s Peak
  • All My Friends
  • …And Still I Wander South
  • Mistakes Like Fractures
  • Counting Worms
  • Permanent
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Alina Salihbekova 70 Articles
Alina is a professional journalist and linguist who loves attending gigs. She's been taking pictures and reviewing live music since 2015 for a variety of different websites. Alina is a big music enthusiast and enjoys all sorts of different genres from nu-metal, industrial and hard rock to jazz, electronic and ambient music.

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