Noise meets ambience, post-rock colliding with film-scores, Long Distance Runner are an instrumental four-piece that have been steadily gathering an audience at London’s best small-venues, The George Tavern, The Social, and Shacklewell Arms, enchanting audiences with wordless pieces that shape-shift and melt into each other, moving between euphoric beauty and darkness, improvisation and structure, tension and release; blurring the lines between form and abstraction. Melodic distortion, chiming guitar riffs, spiralling drum patterns, and moments of gentle calm build up emotional tension, before releasing in cathartic moments of calm and chaos.

   The manifesto is simple: to make instrumental music that moves and transforms its audience, and to let the listener interpret it without words.

Long Distance Runner are currently recording their eagerly awaited debut EP in Dan Carey’s Speedy Wunderground studio, ahead of a packed list of summer shows in 2025.

One thing is for certain; Long Distance Runner are a band that must be seen to be heard.