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The band played headline shows across the country in 2019, infecting the UK’s underground venues with their wild excitement. Never too far from home, the band has sold out shows and drawn attention to live music in Lincoln. In 2020, former guitarist Charlie Weight left The Rills - the band remain as a three piece. The Rills cite their influences as The Libertines, IDLES, Fontaines DC and the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"after-taste","title":"After Taste","description":"\u003cp\u003eLincoln’s rising indie-rock band The Rills return with a new three track 12\" on Nice Swan. 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