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Building bridges

Bridges have been around for just under three years and were formed by three friends from college.

Tom Clarke (vocals and guitar), Steve Golder (bass) and Liam Watts (drums) all studied a popular music course at Warwickshire College’s Leamington Spa site.

Tom hails from Kenilworth and ditched his violin and piano in favour of the electric guitar. Like Tom, Steve taught himself to play his chosen instrument, the bass guitar, from the age of 13. And Liam from Coventry has been banging the drums for a similar length of time.

Kasabian

Finally together as a trio the boys set about performing their growling distortion heavy rock music and started to play at venues organised by their institution.

It was after a memorable gig at Warwick General Hospital that the band decided to take control of things themselves and through the help of a manager (Liam’s dad Martin) Bridges have grown.

Gigging on their own

Already the boys have had a number of high profile gigs. They played at Coventry’s 2004 Godiva Festival along with the likes of Kasabian, The Datsuns and Goldie Looking Chain.

They’ve also supported the Terrorvision spawned Malibu Stacey at the Colosseum as well as The Vaults, Dogs and 10,000 Things at venues around the region.

And to cap it all - they’re all still teenagers!

Listen to the band

If you missed the lads at the Jug and Jester in Leamington Spa then fear not - we've streamed their excellent track Walking On Fire.

The boys have some solid tunes to back up their growing reputation for being a quality live act.

Bridges

And we reckon success wouldn’t be a bridge too far.

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If you think you and/or your band are worthy enough of a feature then email us at: coventry@bbc.co.uk or by using the address on the right.

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