Waterford-based Alt/Indie rock band Midnight Blind brought their July released EP ‘Learn from the Pattern’ to Garter Lane Arts Centre for the latest edition of Courtyard Sounds last Friday. With a huge local following, the three-piece put on quite a show with an acoustic set.

Introducing their new EP, lead vocalist Ian Falconer said, “We have been working hard over the last year and it’s great to bring our new songs to a live stage.” His partners in crime, Philip Purcell (Bass) from Sileverue and Andrew Cuddy (Drums) from Kilmacow formerly of Collides and Deadbeat Circus have now teamed up with newcomer to the Waterford scene Falconer to form Midnight Blind. In typical rock band fashion when asked how the band was formed, the Londoner said, “a long time ago before the great plague an impossibly tall British man rode into town atop a pale horse. He had been given a prophecy by a one-eyed mystic, 'should ye travel to the oldest city in the Emerald Isle, there he would find the two greatest musicians in all the land and together they would form a band that shall be remembered for all time'. Having done what was foretold he did indeed find the two renowned musicians but they totally refused to play with him so Philip and Andrew came to his rescue and the rest is history”.