Trudy and the Romance sound like they’re stumbling into greatness, In advance of their preparing to wow our American friends at SXSW next March, This Liverpool trio Trudy and The Romance share a new cut ‘Sandman’, a big blaster track complete with shouty-outy-sing-along driving pop sections and wavy chord progressions that fuse in an off-kilter merging of jangly guitar riffs, beaty drums and the grunge-pop vocals of Oliver Taylor, who veers between growls and high octaves. Ladies and gentlemen, hot off the block it’s the kids that pop your cotton socks off, Trudy baby. Hopeless, romantic Trudy.
Trudy play their first London show on Tuesday the 12th of January at The Old Blue
These nowhere boys will leave you love drunk and weeping into your whiskey. With hollywood-tinged melodies and raucous guitar, they spit grit in the teeth of a Colgate grin. Trudy are comfy in a mix of Doo-Wop, 60s girl groups, The Beach Boys, The Strokes and Jonathan Richman.
Heartbroken ever since his first love frenched another guy, Olly picked up the guitar and began to pen pop tunes. His songs tell of his struggle being mean to women and regretting it later when he is lonely. Olly needed a band. Tipping a trolley full of trash in a strangers digs, Olly met bassist Lewis and before too long he found drums in childhood mucker Brad. They now live together in Liverpool.
‘Baby I’m Blue’ is the latest chuune to be revealed and follows on from mutant 50s pop cuts ‘Behave’ and the frisky debut ‘All My Love’, all three of which are produced and mixed by indie dreamboat Tarek Musa.
“One thing’s for sure – Trudy sound like very little else around now, and they’re poised to mark their own territory”
‘All My Love‘ is so perfectly pitched it’s nigh-on impossible to entertain notions of where it might one day take them”
“Exactly what a young band should be – completely lost in the world they’re creating for each other, obsessed with great music and utterly daft in each others company” (Bill Ryder-Jones)
“It could fuel your summer, in a ramshackle hedonistic way, but it’s sweeter than that. It’s less sex, drugs, rock n roll, more snogging, cider and pop”
Dates
12 Jan, The Old Blue Last London (DIY’s Hello 2016)
Sat 30 Jan, Headrow House, Leeds (supporting The Magic Gang)
Sat 05 Mar, Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham (supporting Bill Ryder-Jones)
Tue 08 Mar, Stereo, Glasgow (supporting Bill Ryder-Jones)
Thu 10 Mar, Arts Club – Main Room, Liverpool (supporting Bill Ryder-Jones)
Thu 19 May, The Great Escape, Brighton
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