Robb: acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, percussion, ukulele, stylophone, theremin, keyboard, accordian, plastic box and vocals.
Stan: acoustic, electric & bass guitars, piano and percussion.
Vinny: acoustic guitar, harmonica, reed organ, banjo, ukulele, piano, percussion and vocals.
Bez: creakordian, percussion, radio and melodica
Influences
Beck, Dog Bowl, Grandaddy, Gram Parsons, Pavement, The Band, Iron and Wine, Jeffrey Lewis, Daniel Johnston, Bo Carter, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, The Woodstock Album, , Thanksgiving, Adem, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, King Missile, Mount Eerie, Tom Waits, Hank Williams, ...
Sounds Like
“I got your CD yesterday, listened to it this morning after dropping my kid off at school, and fell in love.” - Kramer
“It is possible that the Roman Empire fell apart because they failed to innovate.” Adam Hart-Davis
NEW ALBUM OUT 8TH NOVEMBER!
It's with great pleasure and a sense of nervous excitment, that we release our new album "Return to Woody Creak" in the winter months of 2009.
With 14 tracks and as many instruments, this is our darkest and most ambitious album to date.
YOU CAN BUY THE ALBUM FOR JUST £7 HERE THROUGH PAYPAL, so you endlessly enjoy songs of UFOs, lightning strikes and drowning! We've also put some new tracks taken from the album on the player. Feast your ears!
ALBUM LAUNCH NIGHT!
To celebrate our new album, we will be hosting a special launch night at the Verve Bar, Leeds on the Sunday 8th November, with support, and compering from Harrison Richards. See Gig listings for further details.
2ND ALBUM STILL AVAILABLE!
Enter the beautiful and strange acoustic world of The Roman Empire for the 2nd time! Written and produced by ourselves, "All Hail" has 11 tracks of classic empire tunes. Unmissable!
YOU CAN BUY THE ALBUM FOR JUST £5 HERE THROUGH PAYPAL:
“I really enjoyed your CD, in fact just this morning I was telling my brother about it” – Jeffrey Lewis
Not content with over 1000 years of invasion and domination The Roman Empire reformed in 2002 to win the hearts and minds of the good people of the world with acoustic guitars and songs of truth, sweetness, death and disaster.
Love, The Roman Empire
"LIght Turns Around" Filmed at Hedge, Manchester, 16th Jan 2009
hey guys, yeah atp was almost too good! had a listen to your demo, its really great, i'm a bit dissapointed you didn't give us a quick impromptu performance now! cheers again for driving robb it was very much appreciated.
hey, thanks for the sampler...I think I listened to Crowbar And A Spade around half a dozen times in a row when I first put it on....it'll be on one of the next couple of shows...please, when you make more, send more. take care.x
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every thursday evening, from 9 O'clock (gmt) on radioreverb.com and 97.2FM (southeast england)
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3rd may........U.N.P.O.C......................
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10th may.......STRAND OF OAKS.................
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big thanks to daniel for the picture...http://www.myspace.com/daniel_hyun_lim
Howya Vinny, thanks for comin' along the last night. Not sure if I'll make this Leeds thing, money's too tight to mention, but thanks all the same your ad has made my myspace look interesting.I've been listening to that Adem c.d. you gave me- I like it! Anyway, maybe see ya thursday bud. take care
