Romeo Down

Matt The Guitarist
Matthew The Drummer
Philip The Bassist
Sarah Our Singer

Recently described as a "glam indie rock sensation", Romeo Down will be thrashing the hell out of their next gig at 2100 on Friday 21st January at The Troubadour, 263-7 Old Brompton Road. http://www.troubadour.co.uk/

2009 saw the birth, the first faltering steps, the awkward puberty, grinding maturity and illness-ravaged demise of West London’s finest rock band, Romeo Down.

Long faces haunted the marbled canyons of Hammersmith tube station, grown women were see to gnash their teeth and rend their clothes on the 74 bus, once-hopeful girls were seen drowning their sorrows in the Defector’s Weld before slumping, forlorn on Shepherd’s Bush Green.

There was, surely, no hope. The world – a dried, hopeless husk now – held its breath.

There’s an old saying, “It’s always darkest before dawn”. And it’s true. But the darkness started to lift and the new dawn dawned in March when Romeo Down’s throbbing core – axe-wielding song-machine Matt the Guitarist and metronomic drum animal Matthew the Drummer – convened over a pint by the river in Richmond.

What emerged that afternoon/dawn was simple. A vision. A vision, not just to build a better new band, but to build the best band. Romeo Down would rise and, like a giant black-leather-clad combine harvester, sweep all before it in the field of rock. Auditions in May brought Philip le Bass and his primal bass rumble. Philip le Bass brings rhythmic integrity and a near-telepathic understanding with Matthew the Drummer.

The autumnal blasts hurled themselves against the wizened walls of the rock edifice that is Romeo Down. And what did these winds bring us? She’s small. She’s perfectly-formed. She sings like a dream. She pianos like a dream, as well. She is Sarah Jackson. Meet our new vocalist.

Game on.

These four monolithic figures – carved from rock, tempered by fire, weathered by time – are Romeo Down.