The Fat Angel Sings

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.

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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.

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“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

With a Big Moon support slot this autumn and SXSW in the bag, Trudy and the Romance’s scurvy ascent has been as pestilent as the plague, infecting hearts and minds everywhere. Labelled ‘mutant 50’s pop’ by assorted members of the press, their previous single ‘He Sings’ sailed lecherously up to number 7 on the UK Spotify viral charts.

Their freakbeat flavoured skiffle clearly strikes a chord with legions of mutant fans everywhere and is a broken bottle to the face of blind conformity.

Described as “An electrifying new voice for rock’s near future” ,“Impossible to pin down, they deliver a drunken, stumbling, shambolic rock ’n roll that somehow keeps its shit together when the going gets tough. Truly, Trudy are something very special indeed”

“The off-kilter genre is a fusion of grungy garage rock and doo-wop-inspired instrumentals, combined with the metamorphic nature of frontman Oliver Taylor, whose voice seamlessly transitions between a fragile falsetto and guttural growls”

“If anyone’s gonna do anything from Liverpool in the next 12 months, it’ll be this lot”– NME
6Music’s Steve Lamacq is a bona fide fan. After seeing them live at their packed-out debut London headline show at The Victoria this July he promptly made them artist of the week. Further feverish support on the wireless has come from Radio 1’s Huw Stephens who included ‘He Sings’ in his Best of BBC Introducing,
With more material in the works and more gigging before the year is out, whatever Trudy and the Romance are cooking up will be a drunken witch’s brew of lovesick sea shanties and rabble rousing ditties. To all those who thought the age of romance in music is long dead, Trudy and the Romance stand defiant as mutated specimens of a bygone era.

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Trudy and the Romance have unveiled the music video for new single ‘Wild’.
The video release comes ahead of the band’s forthcoming slots at Liverpool International Music Festival and Tramlines.

Created with Coney’s Studio, the video sees the band hit the seaside in New Brighton.The band will also tour the UK this winter supporting The Big Moon on their UK headline dates.