The only thing thicker and more powerfully gripping than the mud at Splendour was the sound booming from the stage during Royal Blood’s powerhouse set. And now – thanks to Telstra – you can watch the entire thing on demand from the opening track ‘Come On Over ’ right through to the blistering version of ‘Out of the Black’ complete with riffage of Black Sabbath’s ‘Iron Man’.
With just one album to the name, the duo already have a setlist worthy of a festival headline billing and the attitude to back it up. Touring earlier in the year with Laneway Festival they were overlooked by many punters, but here at Splendour they were treated (and played) like all-conquering heroes despite frontman Mike Kerr insisting that he was just up there “pretending to be a rock star”.
Royal Blood’s Splendour setlist:
Come On Over
You Can Be So Cruel
Figure It Out
Better Strangers
Little Monster
Blood Hands
One Trick Pony
Ten Tonne Skeleton
Loose Change
Out of the Black
The Fat Angel Sings 