Theatre Royal, hailing from Medway Cities, down there within the South East of our inexperienced and nice land have been lately invited to the Historic Dockyard in Chatham to report a video for his or her observe Ship Beneath The Ground, taken from their current EP, Beneath The Ground.
The observe itself is influenced by the thriller of HMS Namur, constructed on the dockyard and launched in 1756. The gunship featured in lots of battles between 1758 and 1833.
After being damaged up, 10% of the body was discovered beneath the ground at The Dockyard. It’s nevertheless a thriller as to why the body was stored in such a fashion. The timbers all belonged to HMS Namur slightly than numerous ships. To this present day we don’t know if she was stored collectively as a result of it was maybe the Captain’s favorite ship or purely as a result of there was no different timber to make use of. These have been rediscovered in 1995 and shaped the centrepiece of the Command Of The Oceans gallery on the dockyards museum when it opened in 2016.
Theatre Royal; consisting of Oliver – Vocals/Guitar; Robbie – Guitar/Vocals;
Brendan – Bass/Vocal; Jon – Drums/Vocals and Chris – Sax/Synth; are one thing of a curio, frequently performed by Steve Lamacq and others internationally but nonetheless comparatively unknown. Fashioned in 2009 and naming themselves after the now demolished Theatre Royal in Chatham, Kent, the band launched their debut album ‘from rubble rises…’ in 2010. 4 subsequent albums have adopted, the latest of those being ‘Portraits’, launched by unbiased label Vacilando 68. The band additionally launched a compilation Theatre Royal: Singles 2010-18 which Arash Torabi of Louder Than Struggle reviewed… I see his level, “why the fuck are they probably not well-known?”
The band take their musical cues from the final 60 years creating literate pop music laden with harmonies and chiming guitar traces. You may hear comparisons to acts from Buffalo Springfield to The Go-Betweens and The Conflict to Echo and The Bunnymen though on Ship Beneath The Ground, the synth line at 2:55 is maybe unknowingly indebted to Manic Avenue Preachers’ early b-side Spectators of Suicide (later re-recorded for his or her debut Technology Terrorists).
The band are actually engaged on their as but untitled sixth album for launch in 2023 at Ranscombe Studios in Rochester, Kent and can be supporting the Welsh Indie Legends The Darling Buds on the Islington O2 Academy Saturday eighth October. Tickets out there right here.
Verify them on Fb, Bandcamp and on their web site.
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All phrases by Iain Key. See his creator’s archive right here or discover him on Twitter as @iainkey.
