Rome Burns have a new bassist. Through our exhaustive searches over the mountains of the moon and down the valley of the shadow we were contacted by Heather who seemed perfect for the role.

Name	Heather / "H"
Role	Bass
Joined	2010
Email	coming soon

Info	Hailing from a far and distant land…ok…ok, not that far and distant…just outside Glasgow, she has been playing music from a very tender age. Things suddenly became clearer in her teens when she discovered the good stuff and the power of rock, fell in love with being on stage and has never looked back. H has been a member of many bands over the years, from fronting her own covers band Onchi, and completing the line up for Hoot ‘n’ Roar, The Current Commitments, and Black Days. H is also an honorary, and the only female member thus far, in the Warlords of The Rock Apocalypse, (where she was christened Anna Phylaxis), she was the original bassist for The Lost Weekend (with enigmatic front man Ade Bailey) and most recently has been playing bass for The Laura Tapp Band. She draws her influences from the most unlikeliest of sources, but still manages to make the most awesome noises emanate from four Strings.
Books, Comics, Random Stuff	Following Anita Blake’s adventures in the Vampire Hunter series of books by Laurell K. Hamilton. She loves following Bear and her favourite graphic artists are Luis Royo and Brom.
Special Attack	Bone trembling vibrations (ooer!)
Key Weakness	Jack Daniels, Corsets, Rammstein, Tattoos!
Least likely to say	“Please…no more Jack!!”

05Mar2010: Rome burns invade London again. This time at: The Gaff, 382 Holloway Road, London. Tickets £5 (£6 on the door), Doors 7pm. Open till 4am with DJs...

17Apr2010: *Private function*

15Jul2010-18Jul2010: DV8 Festival, York (http://www.dv8fest.com)

10Sep2010-12Sep2010: The Asylum - Lincon Steampunk Festival (http://steampunk.synthasite.com)

For instance Nev (the tall skinny guitar god) is touring with All Living Fear on the following dates:

28th November 2009 – Wolverhampton • The Dark Room at The Giffard Arms

29th November 2009 – Stockport • The Clubhouse at the Bulls Head

30th November 2009 – Glasgow • Rockers

1st December 2009 – Sunderland • Independent

Ably supported by steampunk surrealism from the London band "The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing".

Tickets can be bought from the Friday Flock website and on the door on the night. Doors 7:30pm, band onstage 8pm.

£4adv - includes free entry to Friday Flock clubnight after the bands.

We have an interview, CD track and album review in the latest issue. Official blurb is below! 

Unscene issue 7 - Out Now!

At long last Unscene returns with another great issue. Bands interviewed this time include Rome Burns, Adoration, Lola Angst, Project Pitchfork, Tenek, Cosmic Intent, Suicidal Romance, Whispers in the Shadow and Deathcamp Project. There's also fashion, CD/Live reviews and lots more.

This issue also comes with a FREE 16 track CD containing tracks from: Rome Burns, Deathcamp Project, Suicidal Romance, Charlotte's Shadow, Versailles, Zeitgeist Zero, Bak XIII, Resist, The Beauty of Gemina, Tenek, Cosmic Intent, The Pussybats, N.U.C., Cauda Pavonis, Dead Sea Surfers and Engine of Excess.

Issues can be ordered through the Unscene website at:
http://www.animespresso.com/unscene

We all had a fantastic gig playing at the Sexy Solstice festival. Thank you to all the fans who turned out to see us play. I must admit i had a huge ammount of fun!

However, this was tempered by the knowledge that it was Tori's last official live perfomance with the band. We all wish her well in her new ventures, and who knows - she may pop back and play for us on an random basis!

As usual, Rome Burns are busy in the background. There's ideas bouncing around concerning the new EP/Album as well as new merchandise in the pipeline.

 Stay Tuned...   -Nevla

Yes beloved Rome Burns chums! It's here, it's new and all bright and shiny! Just search for the Escapologist (sorry - I'll add the link later) by Rome Burns and you should have it. According to the wonderful Dave Hodder, we are 81st in the viewing listings for today!

Plug it, save it, show it to your Mum and Dad; we don't care! It's free and this way we can perform for you anytime you want!

 "It's not easy to get a handle on Rome Burns. The cover art makes The Static Murmur look like a prog-rock concept album, while the band's MySpace page describes the band as 'Alternative/Electro/Post-Punk'. Yet I'd wager the post punks and alternokids have never heard of Rome Burns, for they ply their trade exclusively within the UK goth scene. That's a nice pile of contradictions right there, and we haven't even got to the music yet.

So, let's get to the music. Recondite, wordy lyrics spread themselves luxuriously over a densely-packed thicket of guitars and programming. It's a very English experience, in a way. Simon Sartori Hendley's dry, erudite vocal style - he practially lectures his way through the songs, rather than singing them - casts him as the intellectual cousin of New Order's Bernard Sumner, striding to and fro as he declaims upon the lecture hall podium. The music fits the comparison, too. 'Then Janus' is perhaps the best example of the band's beefed-up New Order feel, with its masses of solid guitars buttressing the to-and-fro melody. Extra points for the line 'Cork and flax and sealing wax' - a typically Rome Burns-ish reference, redolent of archaic detail. It's at times like this, when the band let their engagingly un-rock 'n' roll side come to the fore, that they really score.

Elsewhere, the band's station within goth circles is revealed by the traditional thwap-and-splat of the Really Obvious Drum Machine, still the universal signifier of goth scene residency, while the fizzing, pulsating electronic embellishments - hear them sprinkle themselves over 'The Escapologist' and 'Bodhidharma' - hint that Rome Burns have at least half an eye on getting some Cyber Dancefloor Action. I can't help wondering what Rome Burns would sound like if you put 'em in a studio with a plain old pop producer, and, dare I say it, de-gothed them to the point where their engagingly odd, literate, band persona really came to the fore. All due respect to Manuskript's Mike Uwins, who's on the desk here - he does a sterling job, but as the main man of a goth band himself I think he instinctively defaults to the Goth Scene Way Of Doing Things.

But then, so do the band. The bizarre heavy metal guitar which gatecrashes the party on 'Rebecca Eureka' and spends the song having a punch-up with the cheesy drum machine definitely sounds like someone's trying for a touch of Goth Metal Crossover, and that just isn't a box into which Rome Burns naturally fit. Likewise, the programmed beat-workout that stutters and thumps behind 'Allegiance Lies' sounds like its reference point is the Slimelight dancefloor rather than pop music. The song needs a simple arrangement, prodding the verse neatly up to that nifty tension-release chorus, rather than an excess of chuck-it-all-in electro-clutter.

Rome Burns are a intriguingly indiosyncratic pop group. They're the New Order who stayed in to do their English Literature homework instead of partying at the Hacienda; they're an urban, urbane XTC. Tantalising hints of all this appear on this album, but it's a struggle against the production. And also, perhaps, against the band's own perception of themselves, despite their MySpace dissembling, as just another bunch of goth scene rockers. They could be - they are - more than merely that. Someone should tell 'em. Perhaps I just have."

-Uncle Nemesis 2009

Thanks to everyone involved in the production - a lot of hard work went into this, and i think it shows.

 Also, thanks to Inkubus Sukkubus for letting us support them, it truly was a May Day celebration.

1 chicken leg per person

Lamb (leg steaks are ideal)

Tinned Chickpeas

Couple of tomatoes

Onion

Carrot

Celery

Green Beans

Garlic

Fresh Parsely

Fresh Coriander (the Pinkster says "You can never have enough fresh corriander!!!!")

Raisins

Stock (vegetable bouillon power and water is fine)

Cumin seed

Coriander seed

Paprika

Whole dried chillis

Salt

Pepper

OK, now onto the doing bit!

1. So.... roast your cumin and coriander in a hot saucepan then crush in a pestle and mortar. Bobby recommends adding some salt crystals to help with the grinding.

2. In a large Creuset pot or similar, bring olive oil and butter to a good heat and then add the chicken legs to brown. Once done remove them and keep warm.

3. Reduce the heat a bit, chop your onion and add to the same pan and fry until soft and jsut starting to go brown. Chop the garlic and add.

4. Dice the lamb and add to the pan (optionally brown the lamb) and then add loads of stock and then add the spices, seasoning with one or two chillis to taste (whole de-seeded; can be picked out before serving of course)

 5. Skin the toms (easier when dipped in boiling water first) de-seed and chop the tmos. Chop the carrots and the celery. Drain and rinse the chickpeas and add along with raisins

***by the way, the sauce should be fairly fluid so sort it out if it's a cloggy mess!***

6. Return that badboy chicken to the pan, making sure that it is lying on top with the browned skin just out of the sauce

7. Cover and cook gently for an hour and a half until the lamb is tender. This can be done on the stove or in the oven at a low heat.

8. 10 minutes before serving, top and tail the green beans and add to the pan along with the chopped parsley.

9. 5 mins before serving add the coriander

10. Serve on a bed of cous cous which will absorb the stock nicely and garnish with some left over coriander leaves

 Toripink recommends a refreshing 1996 Pinot Grigio if you are making this before 6pm, or a Fruity light red if it's an evening meal.

If you've f**ked it up bigtime then grab a Newky and serve your unhappy Tangine on toast and whack on a gory film. At least something that night should work out for you.

Well... I don't know about you chaps but that sounds bloody lovely - thanks Bobby! xxxx

It is with regret that Rome Burns must announce that Tori will be leaving the band later in 2009 to concentrate more on her career (or, we suspect, to merely chase boys and to search for the secret of Haribo)