The Rivals has been played on NTS shows including Crossed Wires w/ Amanda Siegel, with Here Comes The Night first played on 28 February 2020.

As always, there seems to be more than one group with a name like this

1)The Rivals were a UK punk band from Ramsgate, in existence from 1976-1981. Originally formed by childhood friends Mark Edwards (guitar, vocals) and Paul Leinster (bass, vocals), they soon added Mark Hebden (drums). The most well known lineup for the band, and the one that produced the vast majority of music that you can find from them, came about when Hebden left the band, to…