Brookln Dekker
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Influences
Fleetwood Mac, Sufjan Stevens, Jose Gonzalez, Zero 7, Elbow, Doves, Blonde Redhead, Damian Jurado, Nick Drake...
Sounds Like
WHERE WE'VE PLAYED
-EUROPE-
Purple Turtle, Oxford UK
The Cross Kings, London UK
Dublin Castle, London UK
Wheatsheaf, Walsall UK
The Tudor, Wigan UK
The Waiting Room, Eaglescliffe UK
Carlton Club, Manchester UK
The View Two Gallery, Liverpool UK
U Rock Cafe, Utrecht NL
Mezz, Breda NL
Rode Pimpernel, Denbosch NL
Oranje Koffeehuis, Arnhem NL
Patronaat, Haarlem NL
Cafe Camelot, Nijmegen NL
QBus Muziekhuis, Leiden NL
KHL, Amsterdam NL
Noorderzon Festival, Groningen NL
Prinsenhof, Groningen NL
Ekko, Utrecht NL
Blauwe Theehuis, Amsterdam NL
Cafe de Slof, Enkhuizen NL
Theatre Cafe Borra, Amersfoort NL
Sturmglocke, Hannover DE
Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg DE
Hasenschaukel, Hamburg DE
Belle Etage, Bremen DE
Dreijahre, Bremen DE
Exhaus Cafe, Trier DE
Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg DE
AMP, Munster DE
Café Mule, Leipzig DE
11er, Frankfurt DE
Südstadt, München DE
Astra Stube, Hamburg DE
Ä, Berlin DE
Schokoladen Mitte, Berlin DE
CVJM Haus, Munchen DE
Volkshuis, Gent BE
Comme à La Maison Festival, Brussels BE
Den Hopsack, Antwerpen BE
Cultuur Cafe Maison, Maldegem BE
L' Atelier 210, Brusels BE
L’Ane Fou, Belguim BE
Dqliq, Luxembourg LU
L’Atelier, Orleans FR
Spoutnik Bar, Nantes FR
L’ Entrepôt, Paris FR
Le Sentier Des Halles, Paris FR
Bistrot De L’Eclusier, Niort FR
La Fleche D’or, Paris FR
La Catrina, Zurich CH
Herbert, Baden CH
Moskito, Bolzano IT
Bar Wolf, Bologna IT
Tetris Club, Trieste IT
Arci Kroen, Verona IT
Cellar Theory, Napoli IT
Mattatoio Culture Club, Carpi IT
Fanfulla 101, Roma IT
-USA-
Schubas, Chicago IL
Martyrs, Chicago IL
Corduroys, Chicago IL
Subterranean, Chicago IL
Uncommon Ground, Chicago IL
Elbo Room, Chicago IL
Double Door, Chicago IL
Beat Kitchen, Chicago IL
Pint, Chicago IL
Zhou B Art Gallery, Chicago IL
Red Line Tap, Chicago IL
Bricolage, Long Grove IL
Blue Room Cafe, Hammond IN
The Fellowship, Kenosha WI
Paradigm, Sheboygan WI
Stonefly Brewery, Milwaukee WI
Courtyard Cafe, Champaign IL
Aroma Cafe, Champaign IL
Moon Monkey Coffee, Bourbannais IL
Blue Room Cafe, Highland IN
Center Stage Cafe, Indianapolis IN
Wired Coffee House, Evansville IN
Cornerstone Festival, Bushnell IL
Common Grounds, Macomb IL
Micks, Omaha NE
Rockstar Nightclub, St. Louis MO
Skinless Productions Gallery, Kansas City MO
Rockwood Music Hall, NYC NY
Petes Candy Store, Brooklyn NY
The Living Room, NYC NY
Named after a road running through the Chicago suburbs, Rue Royale’s musical journey has taken in a lot of sights in just two years.
In March 2008 Ruth and Brookln Dekker made the full-time touring band plunge, moving out of their house, in with some friends and selling all their belongings… save for a kick drum, shakers, guitar and a sat nav named Shelley. Straight in at the deep end, a 20-date European tour led to coverage on XFM (topping their weekly “Music Response” ballot) and BBC Six Music (“Introducing with Tom Robinson”) and boasted sold out concerts in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.
Rue Royale developed from Ruth and Brookln’s over-the-pond relationship. Influenced by Fleetwood Mac, Nick Drake, Zero 7 and the northern UK soul of Elbow and The Doves, they began writing together and gradually developed the candle-lit Rue Royale sound, honed through acoustic gigs and home-recorded demos.
Brookln grew up in St Louis, to church-music leading parents. He played the coffee-house circuit with God's Green Earth before moving to Chicago in 1998. Ruth was raised in Midlands county Staffordshire in the UK, a stone's throw from the historic city of Lichfield with it's 1,300-year-old cathedral. Teenage years sound-tracked by 90's Brit-pop and folk-rock, she met Brookln when touring Stateside. They wed in England five years ago and settled in Chicago soon after.
Brookln and Ruth started performing together in March 2006, and have since gigged extensively, clocked up hours of radio play across the US, had two of their tunes on MTV and amassed over 250,000 plays on myspace.
A lovingly illustrated EP, The Search For Where To Go (May 2006), was the first fruit with copies dispatched to intrigued music fans throughout the US, Canada, England, Germany and France.
Rue Royale unveiled their debut long-player at the start of 2008 – following a year that saw them firmly establish themselves on the musical map. The eponymous Rue Royale was recorded in December 2007 and independently released in February 2008.
Not content with playing in all corners of Europe – ranging from the historic Sturmglocke squat site in Hanover to an intimate house show in rural Yorkshire - Rue Royale have left their Chicago base to set up home in the UK. Their plans for EU domination continue with an intensive tour schedule of the UK and European mainland in 2009.
Hope you're well... just to say I have a copy of the pics I took of you at Newhampton Arts Centre - send me a message as to where to post the CD of them to... printed two off A3 and they're framed on our photo wall at Musoplex.
likewise. lets get together. birds of a feather. we are driving around each other right now. just played at herbert in baden the other night. thanks for warming the crowd up a few weeks previous!
many thanks for the fantastic gig yesterday in brunico... good luck for the rest of the tour! hope to see you again in february !!! ... and the album is fabulous... Big hug Leander
I just check your italian tour dates...you just mistaked one thing: the sartea bar is not in Venice, it's in Vicenza...so bad...if it was in Venice we could have come to see you again....snif...
Hi Rue royale.. Thanks for taking the time to listen! I just love your music, so nice and soothing!! My favorite songs are "What next dear one" beautiful chords, and "Parachutes and lifeboats" the piano sounds great, awesome songs... I hope you're having a great week!! Have fun, Josh
