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SINGLE GET PLAYED, taken from the forthcoming album hope is not enough
(due in july), is out now, distributed by universal all over the
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world.
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Many a rock journeyman would describe themselves as a missionary,
preaching the cause of kick-bottom rock’n’roll rebel-rousing to the
savage masses. But very few have actually got their healing hands dirty
converting heathens to their strict Christian ways. In fact, besides
Kings Of Leon, there might well just be one.
From preaching holy law to the farm-folk of New Guinea to dragging the
uninitiated to worship at the altar of melodic punk as singer in Royal
Treatment Plant, PP has trodden an unconventional path to rock
enlightenment. In fact, it was only when she escaped the church at
eighteen after God was rather vague in his selection of a husband for
her, that PP was exposed to the unholy trinity of sex, drugs and
rock’n’roll in that demonic circle of subsidized lager and rugby soc
depravity they call the University system. “In the church that I was in
you weren’t allowed to have boyfriends, God told you who to marry. So
suddenly a few guys told me that God had told them they had to marry me
and I went ‘oh man, this is all wrong, I’m outta here,' and ended up
heading to London”.
Freshly inspired by Pixies, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Muse and the wonders of
normality, PP set about playing solo acoustic gigs around London,
suddenly enraptured with the rock’n’roll dream. When bass players
started asking for one hundred pounds a gig though, she resorted to
asking the first guy she met at a bus stop in Uxbridge with a bass over
his back if he wanted to jam. The guy turned out to be DJ, a Brunel
University student fresh out of a Stone Roses style school band and
looking for other musical options.You
wait ages for a struggling, tortured artiste and then two come along at
once. If not heaven, PP and DJ were certainly a marriage made in an
Uxbridge bus station, and the pair began gigging around the London
acoustic circuit, at the 12 Bar Club in Denmark Street and the Bedford
Arms.For almost a year Royal Treatment Plant were an amorphous
folk beast. It was only after recruiting guitarist Sam, keyboardist Tom
and drummer Chris in 2006 that The Rock really began to take hold,
teased out of them by demo recording sessions with Jamie Watson
(producer of early Snow Patrol) in Edinburgh. “Edinburgh was our first
little break. That was the beginning of 2006. Jamie liked the stuff so
much he said ‘lets release it’.”
So, with their folk songs being reborn as kick-ass rock behemoths,
RTP’s first single ‘Carry Me’ was released on Edinburgh’s Human
Condition Records late in 2006.
As the gigs got more riotous and the demo sessions got more frequent,
Royal Treatment Plant’s modus operandi developed: the sharp, serrated
guitar bite and cherubic coos of Metric or Yeah Yeah Yeahs laced with
scathing socio-personal lyrics like acid on the soul.
Gaining numerous plays on US radio station KROQ, nods of approval from
peers like The Automatic and Los Campesinos! , a slew of memorable
press and with a new single ‘Get Played’ due to gate-crash the US
Democratic election winner’s party in March and puke in the punch bowl
and their soon-to-be-recorded album out in June, they’re about to hit
2008 like a really tuneful Cloverfield monster.
No preaching; spin the disc, you’re already converted…
(Mark Beaumont, NME, February 2008)
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