Crash Of Rhinos Return to the Stage After a Decade-Long Gap

On Friday night in Nottingham, Crash Of Rhinos played their first show since 2013. The set opened a short tour supporting Logbook, the Derby band’s first album in over a decade. It’s a reunion that lands squarely in the middle of a quiet but persistent emo revival, though the group’s own history resists easy nostalgia.

When they announced the return in March, Oli Craven described the emotional seesaw of their final tour, where fervent Italian crowds gave way to a three-person audience in Switzerland. “That last tour was so difficult,” he said at the time. “Because we’d go from a peak somewhere in Italy… and then in Switzerland, we played to three people.” Bandmate Richard “Biff” Birkin echoed the memory of Italian highs, underlining the uneven geography of a career that burned out just as it was gathering heat.

The current routing seems designed to re-enter those warmer pockets. After Nottingham, the tour moves through Leeds, Munich, and then a stretch of Italian dates — Brescia, Rome, Umbertide — before returning to the UK for London, Oxford, and Bristol. The itinerary reads less like a victory lap and more like a strategic reconnection with the places that last responded with real energy.

No new mythology is needed here. The fact is simple: a band that once mattered to a small, cross-continental audience is back onstage, picking up a thread it left frayed 13 years ago.