Royworld - Single: 'Elasticity'/'Tinman

Ok, ROYWORLD, think Talking Heads, Arcade Fire, Roxy Music, Gary Newman, Fleetwood Mac, Tears for Fears and Kate Bush…got your attention yet? Here is a band who have heard the big music and aren't afraid to play their brand of it with a radiantly straight bat. If you’re not already aware, ROYWORLD consist of Rod Futrille (vocals), Timmy Miles (keyboards), Gerry Morgan (drums) and Robbie Parkin (guitar). None of them are called Roy, but they do have a Rob and a Rod in the band, which is pretty close. Four musical refugees from various parts of these sceptred isles and they currently reside in South London.

ROYWORLD release this single on Label Fandango on 3rd December, gigging at Purple Turtle & Hope and Anchor and we think they’re just AMAZING. Listeners embrace this MASSIVE sound, accept it as sign of good things to come, and take on board the 2008 musical change that is just around the corner.

ROYWORLD, orbiting venues here:
November 26th: MANCHESTER Night & Day
November 30th: LEEDS Trash
December 1st: CARDIFF Barfly
December 2nd: LIVERPOOL Barfly
December 4th: LONDON CAMDEN Dublin Castle - Club Fandango
December 6th: KINGSTON The Works December 7th: NOTTINGHAM Eschua
December 8th: BRISTOL Louisiana

'Elasticity' is dead smart pop like they used to make in the olden days mixed with the sort of lovely modern melodramatics which have recently seen them lurking in the studio with Andy Green, Keane's producer. The flipside 'Tinman', meanwhile, is a quietly brilliant hyperballad which will have them swooning in the aisles and sweeping fallen angels off the altar. Both songs will be appearing again on the quartet's major label debut album, slated for release in the spring of next year

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