RVG
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MELBOURNE HEADLINE SHOW
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Melbourne’s RVG are today excited to announce their first Australian headline show since returning from the USA. The band will play a very special show in their hometown of Melbourne at The Curtin Bandroom on Thursday 3rd of May immediately before they head overseas again this time bound for the UK & Europe. The band will be joined by special guests Taipan Tiger Girls and Sweet Whirl. With no pre-sales, you’ll have to eagerly get yourself to The Curtin on May 3rd as tickets will only be available on the door.
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RVG took their music overseas for the first time last month at Austin’s SXSW, where they undoubtedly left an impression playing gripping showcases to packed-out rooms. Continuing on with their shimmering streak, this week RVG were announced as being nominated for four AIR Awards. In less than a month the band will support UK upstarts Shame on their 13 date European tour as well as playing The Great Escape Festival in Brighton.
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RVG – known less formally as the Romy Vager Group – released their acclaimed debut album A Quality of Mercy in 2017. Self-recorded live off the floor at The Tote, and engineered by their bassist Angus Belle, the eight songs on A Quality of Mercy traverse through the myth of the tortured artist, the isolation of being trans, falling in love with a computer, the feeling of awaiting your fate on death row. Each song is played with wit, compassion and commitment, evident in singer Romy’s delivery, her “fierceness, her flow, and how clear it is she’s singing about what she knows” (The Guardian). The Fader called the album “a much-needed plea for kindness” with Triple R calling it “emotionally engaging”, whilst awarding their Album of the Week.
RVG signed with Our Golden Friend who re-released their album in October, which led into a much-hyped BIGSOUND set and four nominations at The Age Music Victoria Awards – for Best Album, Best Song, Best Band and Best Emerging Act. Their set at Meredith Music Festival was one of the most talked about over the weekend, and they went on to support Camp Cope, and then Future Islands, at The Forum – one of, if not the most iconic venue in Melbourne. RVG have since signed with Isla Angus at ATC Live for bookings in the UK/EU and Lucy Beach at Paradigm for North America. All this growing from a band whose first release of their debut album came with no photo, no press release, no plan.
Together, RVG – Romy Vager (vocals, guitar), Reuben Bloxham (guitar), Angus Belle (bass), Marc Nolte (drums) – deliver a refreshing kind of honesty and intelligence that you don’t hear in your everyday garage band.
RVG UPCOMING LIVE SHOWS
3/5 @ The Curtin Hotel, Melbourne w/ Taipan Tiger Girls + Sweet Whirl
7/5 @ Cafe V Lese, Prague supporting Shame
8/5 @ Chelsea, Vienna supporting Shame
9/5 @ Strom, Munich supporting Shame
11/5 @ Dynamo, Zurich supporting Shame
12/5 @ Covo Club, Bologna supporting Shame
14/5 @ Sidecar, Barcelona supporting Shame
15/5 @ La Boite, Madrid supporting Shame
17/5 @ The Great Escape, Brighton
20/5 @ Aeronef, Lille supporting Shame
21/5 @ YUCA, Cologne supporting Shame
22/5 @ Rotonde, Brussels supporting Shame
23/5 @ Molotow, Hamburg supporting Shame
25/5 @ Badehaus, Berlin supporting Shame
29/7 @ Festival Les Escales, Saint Nazaire
Praise for RVG – A Quality Of Mercy
RRR Album Of The Week
PBS Feature Album
RTR FM Feature Album
“A Quality Of Mercy is a much needed plea for kindness” – The Fader
“RVG evoke 80s Australian bands that crammed garage rock cred with sun-dappled hooks, such as Sunnyboys or the Go-Betweens. What makes these songs so moving is not Vager’s voice itself but her delivery. Her fierceness, her flow and how clear it is she’s singing about what she knows.” – Kate Hennessy, The Guardian
“A Quality Of Mercy, an eight-track collection of tight, incisive post-punk/retro-pop infused with a liberal dose of downcast catharsis, confessional lyrics and downright infectious hooks.” – The Music
“A Quality of Mercy” is the debut album from Melbourne’s RVG, led by songwriter Romy Vager: a powerful LP of emotionally engaging work that draws inspiration from post-punk and new wave pop styles.” – Simon Winkler, RRR
“A Quality of Mercy is the title of RVG’s gripping, post-gothic, charcoal sounding album. Television’s Marquee Moon and Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures are influencing current bands just a Rumours did three years ago”. – Mikey Cahill, The Herald Sun (listed album 7 in 10 ten albums of 2017 so far)
“A Quality of Mercy – the debut album from Melbourne’s RVG, is a collection of sharp, driving pop songs that draw equally from the goth palette of early 4AD and the literary proto-punk of Television.” – Who The Hell
“RVG deliver a world-class first release. Prepare yourself to be thrown back and feel all your feelings.” – Beth AQ, PBS Breakfast Spread
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RVG
A QUALITY OF MERCY
1. A Quality of Mercy
2. Cause & Effect
3. IBM
4. Heart Paste
5. The Eggshell World
6. Vincent Van Gogh
7. Feral Beach
8. That’s All
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