2009/2010 (the second wrap up!)

Hey all

It's the final day of 2009, and we thought we'd give you all a wrap up of this year and let you know what were up to for the year that we are about to enter!

First off, we hope every single one of you has had a fantastic Christmas and rest assured were all gonna be celebrating in style to bring in the new year!!

Also a big thank you to everyone who came to our final show of 2009 @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, and a big thanks to Martin Williams for putting us on. It was truly a great way to get into the festive spirit, and lets not forget the awesome bands that were on before and after us (THE GUNS, STRAIGHT LINES + I AM ABSOLUTE).
We urge you guys to check out these bands. Support local poets!

Now then what else.....?

We also would like to thank Owen from Nation Radio for giving us the chance to do a special Christmas eve session! We all had fun and enjoyed ourselves and we hope you guys tuned in for it!

Nation radio has also been playing our album track "High on the Nines" as part of nations "Airplay" show for local music, so we urge you to keep tuning in, not just for the track, also because it's an awesome show showcasing all of Wales local talent!
More info at www.nationwales.com or tune in @ 106.8 & 107.3FM

So what are we doing now? Were booking!!!

But while we wait, where do you want to see us play? LET US KNOW!!

We'd love to hear from you so send your suggestions to our:
Facebook/Twitter/Myspace/bebo/Isound/Purevolume/Tumblr/Flickr and Youtube accounts!

As for gigs already booked, we have two gigs in a row to start off our 2010! Jan 14th- we head off to HIGH WYCOMBE where we will be headlining at BLUES LOFT @ THE NAGS HEAD as part of a "Welsh Invasion" bill, more info on that show soon! If your in the area, let us know! We cant wait to make some new friends!!

Jan 15th - We head back home to Bridgend, to be main support to our good friends TIGER PLEASE @ HOBO'S. Other support on the bill will be BAYONETS and KISS SILVER.

This is an all age show, Doors open 7pm and is £3 entry.

Heres the FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=217245351262&ref=ts

To conclude, We'd like to take this oppourtunity to thank everyone and anyone who has been supporting us up to this point. We promise that all the waiting and patience will not go unrewarded. We are gonna be working like Duracell bunnies this year and we wont stop! Expect to see a lot more of Caesars Rome in 2010!

we wish you all a very happy new year and a prosperous 2010!

CAESARS ROME -- THE COMPANY WE KEEP (February 22nd 2010)

www.myspace.com/caesarsrome
www.myspace.com/superballmusiclabel
www.caesarsrome.com

Peace

Kyle & Jon

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At a glance...

Hey hey all!!!

Just thought id take the opportunity to inform all about any new info we have to share.

We hope your all enjoying our brand new track "High on the Nines" from our Debut album "The company we keep", it'll keep us all occupied till we can release more on the album, and oh boy you ain't seen nothing yet!

Now then,
just to inform as much people as possible, we just couldn't stay away from the stage till 2010, so we've just jumped on the bill for a special Xmas show @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff.

We will be joining our good friends I AM ABSOLUTE and STRAIGHT LINES on the bill as well as Head liners THE GUNS.

This is on TUESDAY 22nd DECEMBER, DOORS OPEN 7PM and tickets are £7 each! (all ticket holders will be getting a Special Lucky dip prize!)

Here's the link to the show! (Don't be misled by the poster WE ARE ON THE BILL)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=176407004939&ref=ts

And for tickets visit this site!
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_wales&query=schedule&venue=clwb&next=355605

Hope to see you all there! Celebrate Xmas in style!

And finally, we've just finished a photo shoot courtesy of our good friend Ross Summers, and we cant wait to show you the results!

Wanna see what he can do? check out his work on www.rosssummers.co.uk

A big thank you to him.

So then, any more info we will let you know!

See you all on the 22nd dec!

Kyle
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The long awaited Album Info!

So we had confirmation yesterday to go ahead with promoting the album!

Here is the Album title and tracklisting!
We are more than excited to show you all the album!
There is a release date penned down but will give you full confirmation when we receive it!

TITLE: The Company We Keep

1. Vegas & It’s Nightlife
2. High On The Nines
3. Awake & Armed
4. Let’s Wish
5. Oceans
6. The After dark Soundtrack
7. Goodbye Country Road
8. Kicking Down Castles
9. Finding Waves
10. O’Captain

The album will be released Via Superball Records in early 2010!
The album was also Produced by Romesh Dodangoda @ Long Wave Studio, Cardiff.

The Album is being done by a good friend of ours Ceri Jones, more info on him soon!

We also have a BRAND NEW TRACK from the album streaming on our Myspace page right now;
http://www.myspace.com/caesarsrome

2009/2010!!!

Hey there everyone!!

Well its that time of year again!, where we look back on the year so far and look forward to what's in-store for the future.

Last night was our last show of 2009 @ the (Last ever!!) Muni fight night in Pontypridd. Needless to say, our set had never been tighter, and with a cheeky birthday stunt for our very own Jon Hopkins thrown in (yes, its his birthday TODAY!), we all had a great time playing. Other bands included Nothing New, Death of an icon, Set In Motion and "Headliner" Dreamer.

Thanks to everyone who turned up to this final fight night and a big thanks to Deadstar events for letting us be a part of what would be regarded as the end of an era. Check them out @ www.myspace.com/deadstarevents, Good luck with you new plans to get kids off the streets and into the venues! Support your local scene!

Anyways whats up with us?

Well as our final job of the year, we will be doing a radio session on the 7th dec 7pm-9pm with Tequila live Sessions. For more information check out:

www.tequilaradio.co.uk
www.myspace.com/tequilalive

They also have a facebook group, so check them out if you can

This will not be broadcasting until January 2010! Date will be confirmed ASAP

Hope you can all tune in!!

Now 2010?

Unfortunately, we have no more plans to play shows in 2009 so we can concentrate more on the release of our debut album (which will be in 2010!) We will be keeping in touch with information throughout the remainder of the year so you wont be kept in the dark.

We are happy to inform however that our good friend Mr Ceri Jones (The Muscle Club) will be doing our artwork for the début album, and so far we are extremely happy with the results and can wait for the final drafts!

We are also happy to announce that our first gig of 2010 has been booked in High Wycombe @ The blues loft (The nags head) 14th Jan 2010. We are very exicted to start taking our music to the road! More Info on support TBC.

we update our facebook/myspace/twitter profile constantly, so to find out more about what were up to, keep checking, hell!! even comment on us! we'd love to hear from you.

So to sign off...

We'd like to thank everyone who has supported us throughout this year and had come to our shows! You have all been so patient with us and we will not disappoint you! so thank you so so much!

2010 The Rome is coming for ya!

Have a great Xmas and a fantastic new year!!

From Myself, Jon, Rich and Cocco

Kyle
CR
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Winter.

Good morning everyone!

Well we played our first show of the Autumn/Winter last Saturday @ Hobo's Bridgend with some fantastic bands. We are once again starting to book up some shows for the remaining months of the year. If you head over to our Myspace Profile you can keep upto date with the show calender there!

Other news:

The album is 100% complete as we've mentioned previously, artwork is being pushed for completion asap, so the production and everything else can start to begin!
We are hoping that it will be out in January 2010!

The EP is still awaiting vocals, we've all been hit with a huge amount of other work involving the album which has halted the process of putting the finishing touches to the EP!
I thought i'd post an image of the artwork for the EP!
But you'll have to be rad and visit out tumblr.com page for that!

Which is: http://caesarsrome.tumblr.com

There are many of you busy internet bodies on Twitter these days!

So follow us & me here: @caesarsrome / @jdhopkins

We will be updating you as soon as we can in regards to all the goings on here!
Peace!

Jonathan
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Its ticking!!!

Hey all,

Hope you've all had a good read of Jon's Lyrics! We hope to see you all singing along soon!

Anyways, hows our plans going? glad you asked!

Well on an obvious note our pre album release EP "Traitors" Is completed on the instrument side and Is awaiting vocal input. All will be completed in time for its release in November, The artwork is done and ready to go, we cannot believe how well the artwork has turned out, and we will show you all in its glory very soon. A big thank you to James E Tutton for all his hard work!

We all had a tremendous time recording this and a big thanks once again to Sally from Cock a doodle doo (The cottage), for booking us in for such a long stay!

Now before you say anything.......yes we do have footage of the whole stay and oh boy is it side splitting! were still debating what to do with it but rest assured they will be on display soon!

Now moving on... referring to Jon's previous post about our début album:

YES ITS DONE!!

The tracking is done

The vocals are done

The Mixing is done!

Excited?...... we are!!

So now we can say that we are full speed ahead on everything. More news very soon!

Finally, we hope you guys can make it to our show in Hobos Bridgend THIS SATURDAY!

Our set will be brand new and consist of songs off our New EP "Traitors" so come on down for a sneak preview!

Dont forget to check out the awesome bands that we will supporting (The Smoking Hearts, Death of an Icon, Los Salvadores and Arms of Atlas)

Heres the poster, so keep watching the space for more info

Get ready UK, The Rome is coming for ya!!!

Kyle
CR
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EP Lyrics

So i've been handed some free time on a Friday night. I thought i'd post the lyrics up for the songs that feature on the EP. I don't know about everyone but i find it interesting to know the lyrics for songs before the release.

Plus if you come to see us live you can have a head start in singing along:

In Your Defence

wrap me up in sellotape

i am the gift

ill play a part in this criminal case

just to be safe

they said your name, i heard a cry

it came from the heart

maybe we can talk again

its the price i have to pay

So I'm turning the clocks back

will it be the same

am i re-living my nightmares

frame by frame

i'm carrying it all for you

with my head held high

will i survive

in your defence

stand up, single file

it's just another day

we all live in dark times

i suggest we kneel and pray

so i reach the shoreline

to wash my sins away

is this love yours or mine

i dont think i'm the one to say.

So I'm turning the clocks back

will it be the same

am i re-living my nightmares

frame by frame

i'm carrying it all for you

with my head held high

will i survive

in your defence

Lead By Books, Read By Kings.

these eyes, they stare

into lies

that repent, repent

and stop and think of home

for everyone, has forgotten

more than they know.

We'll build on their prayers

for all to see

we long for repeating dreams

We're not the easy ones to blame

cos' i've built a wall around this place

we're safe, safe

we'll start a new life where

there's (no price to pay)

Stop and heal these worlds

all im trying to say

is they feed their lies

to their prey.

We live in a world

each day the same

we'll tell them

lies, to their face.

cos' i've built a wall around this place

we're safe, safe

we'll start another life where

there's (no price to pay)

We'll suffer for an age

throw me your books

and we'll burn each page.

Traitors

A band of merry men

together through thick and thin

we sharpen our teeth on bone

so let conversation fan the flames

we'll play this game, we'll play

we are liars, breaking oaths sworn

oh save our souls

And so the story goes we'll live each day as traitors

and now we'll talk it out

tell me what you'd like to hear

forgive me for not being sincere

ill trade a life

so you can stay right here

we are liars, breaking oaths sworn

oh save our souls

And so the story goes we'll live each day as traitors

Lock & Key

Be quiet don't make a sound

i heard a voice, dont you see the crowds

they gather ahead

where do the good boys go to dream

holding our hearts under lock and key

And where do the good girls go to dream

sinking ships under lock and key.

I was starting to believe in them

holding out arms, no fear of the wind.

I was starting to believe in them

I'm tired of living my life under lock & key

We are all extremely excited to share this EP with you guys, it's been something we've wanted to do for a while! Come see us play!

Jonathan x

TRAITORS!

We've just arrived home after recording our EP all week!
Sounds brilliant!

Anyway back to general day to day stuff:

Read an interview that Jon did with Rock Midgets here:

http://www.rockmidgets.com/features.php?page=3&id=2505

more updates soon!

COMPLETE!

Our debut album is complete!
All the tracking was finalised today!

We cannot wait to announce more soon!
Along with a proposed release date!

We head back to the cottage tomorrow for a whole week!
Keep your eyes peeled!

Jd

Caesars Rome

EP Details!

We said we would, so here it is the information regarding the tracks and it's title!

It's title is "TRAITORS"

Track listing:

1. In your defence

2. Traitors

3. Lock & Key

4. Lead by books, read by kings

5. Cover (To be announced soon!)

We will be doing everything in our power to get this out to you by the end of October, and we will be playing everywhere from there on!

The artwork looks incredible already, it's being done by a good friend "James Tutton" who you will get to know all about as soon as we start posting pics!

So keep your eyes peeled!

Jonathan
Caesars Rome

Looks like Chris Tucker!

Hey all,

Another successfull trip to Cock-a-doodle-doo (The Cottage, according to the unsigined guide) has come to pass leaving us 2 1/2 weeks left till our final visit and the compleation of our Pre-album release EP!

With all the tracks 100% selected, we spent the weekend constantly rehearsing them till our fingers and throats were black and blue. We are all extremely happy with what weve come up with, and among other things, exicited to show you all the results!

We will be taking the camcorder again to film the recording process as it happens, so keep watching the spaces!

But thats enough about us, How are you guys???
We know it hasnt been long since we last played, be we are missing you all and cant wait to get right back into the gig scene, rest assured we are starting to find as many gigs as possible prior to the release of our ep In October.

In the meantime, we hope you guys can get on our webpages (myspace, Facebook, Bebo, Isound, Flickr, Purevolume) and let us know what your up to. You can also follow us on twitter, or your can follow jon's personal adventures with his own twitter (/jdhopkins)

We decided not to film a majority of the weekend, but jon has taken some pics with his iphone, and some are displayed below. Enjoy!

From myself and the rest of the boys from the Rome
Well see you real soon!

safe
Kyle
CR
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Company! Advance!

Hey all!

A big thank you to everyone who came to the FFAF gig at Maesteg town hall. The show was a fantastic success and the audience were incredible!. We came on and played our best, and left with high spirits so a big thank you to everyone who watched us play. Also Big up to the other support bands who played a spectacular show (The New 1920's + Dead against the rest) We urge you the check these guys out at a show near you.

Of course it didnt stop there..... After a quick chat with some of our good friends we stuck round to see the Mighty Funeral for a friend play a superb set, where our very own Jon Hopkins accompanied Matt Davies singing opening track "All the rage". The night ended with the whole crew including us singing along onstage for the final song. A fantastic end to a fantastic night.

A big thank you also to Glyn Mills and Richard and Margret Collins from The Garwen Trust for giving us the oppurtunity to play this amazing show.

Now then, whats next for us?

Well we currently we have no shows to reveal just yet, but we are finnaly starting work on our Ep (due for release in late october). This weekend sees our next visit to "The Cottage" and were all really exicted to start recording. Artwork, Tracklisting, and the name will all be revealed soon enough so keep watching this space. We will also have more news regarding our debut album which we cannot wait to show guys, so rest assured we are all working hard!

In the mean time we have a new Myspace layout up courtesey of Ryan Manwaring from Golarge Advertising, so let us know what you think. www.myspace.com/caesarsrome

To wrap up now, here are some pictures from that awesome night, taken by Megan Jones

Safe

Kyle

CR

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Gig preperation!

Hey all!

Well its been a while since ive done my own updates on here so i thought id tell you all weve been up to.

Weve just come back from our second rehearsal and writing session in the cottage, and apart from pulling the odd pranks and keeping out an intruding rooster called "Alexander" the trip has been a huge success. The songs for our EP have been selected and constantly rehearsed but we have also had creative juices flowing and wrote a couple more songs!

Jon has all the footage we took, and will be editing all the vids. The finished vids will be up soon, but we will return in late august to do our final rehearsals before we start work on recording. More on that very soon!

Now then!! Present Business....

Our gig with the mighty Funeral for a friend In Maesteg town hall has completely sold out!!! we cannot believe the response this has had on word of mouth alone! Thanks to everyone who bought a ticket and helped out for a good cause. We cant wait to see you all there on Aug 22nd and we promise a good show. Weve just come back from our set rehearsal for the show back in good old Manic studios and its all sounding great.

Keep watching this space and other spaces for more and more updates to follow!

Safe!

Kyle

CR

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The Cottage!

See our Cottage Episodes right here:

Day One:



Day Two:

Safe!

5 days.

Good evening.

It's been a long weekend, and we have exciting times ahead!
We go back to the cottage in 5 days! Friday 7th August we embark on our penultimate writing trip to the cottage before we go back there in September to start tracking our E.P.

So this is the one before last writing weekend we have there, for those who didnt understand me earlier. We are there for three days this coming weekend, the weekend which follows our show with FFAF is the last chance to put finishing touches etc to tracks we are recording.

For those who have been keeping up with the blog and postings over on Myspace & Facebook you'll already know that we've FINALLY picked a title. The last time i posted in regards to it we decided to scrap it all over again.
So it has been decided. Artwork has began. Can't wait to show you guys the results!

We are waiting on an Album release date as it stands. We predict that the E.P depending on how things progress will be out in Late October. We have to organise the artwork and pressing of that.
We will be doing a limited press of coloured Vinyl more on that in the future!

I will get round to editing some video footage we have. All in good time!

Jonathan

Repairs.

So it's been a productive month thus far, but it's lead us to a point where something had to go wrong! My amp needs a servicing and revalving by the sounds. Cocco's amp on the other hand has kaput completely.

He's had issues with it previously and we thought they were resolved, until last week in rehearsal. It seems to be shorting the power fuse every time a fresh one is inserted. So our resident technician will be having a look at both amps.
On the guitar front Kyle has purchased a new Telecaster Standard!
I'll need both my Guitars looked at and will be having barrel jack inputs fitted in both as it seems to be the only design flaw.

So in two weeks time we head back up to the fantastic cottage to continue writing some new songs that will feature on our bootleg E.P that we intend on putting out before the album! I'm yet to find time to edit the footage from the Studio and our last visit to the cottage.
I'm sure i will get my arse into gear very soon!

We have one show booked this summer and that will be it until the E.P and album are all ready to go, the preparation for the releases will be extensive so we have to get our priorities in order.

We played a home show last weekend, and it was fantastic, our engineer Sean Hales recorded the whole show and it was pretty cool to hear everything back, we will be recording our show with Funeral For A Friend and hopefully will be able to feature some of the tracks on the bootleg.
So all is well in the Rome and we hope to be able to update you lovely people that take time to read this more frequently!

We also had a fabulous photo shoot with a Mr Matthew Davies-Kreye of a certain band, you may have heard of them!

Here is the man at work;

the pictures look awesome so far and we can't wait to share them with you!

For twitter users:

@caesarsrome
@jdhopkins

Peace out!
Jonathan

Cinematic Scope.

So the past week has been very busy for us and we have never been so excited to inform you all about it!

Last week saw us return to the studio to re-begin recording Vocals for our debut album, we hit Long Wave Recording Studio on Thursday July 16th and began tracking vocals.
Day one was an incredible success, getting 4 vocal tracks down was such a relief, my voice held out well. Friday saw Day Two kick off with Kyle tracking his vocals first to give me a break. Kyle then had to shoot off from the studio to go congratulate himself in successfully passing his University Course and had to go Graduate with his fellow students!

I maintained the level I had achieved in day one and finished the entire album by 5PM.

Shortly after that myself and Cocco headed to our rehearsal lock up and loaded the van for our very first show in Hobo's and our return to our home town!

We loaded in to Hobo's at around 4:30PM quick set up and sound check, the line up was a fantastic, featuring probably some of the best bands in South Wales at the moment. (Cuba Cuba, Tiger Please & Straight Lines).
We went on stage at around 10PM and had a fantastic show, the crowd, the vibe were outstanding, in a celebration to finishing our album we got very merry afterwards. Thanks to everyone that came out to see us play and those who still support local music week in week out!

All we await now is a slot to finish the gang vocals on the record which will be very soon, and then a release date!
We are heading back to the cottage for a longer stretch during August & September to begin tracking the E.P!

Here are some, not many pics from Long Wave:





Jonathan

Titles & Bookings.

Currently lapping up the sunshine in my living room, watching the Ashes.
I'm a bit of a sucker for Cricket I must admit.
Anyway we finally have some interesting news, if it doesn't excite you enough yet we definitely are over the moon about it.
We have had indication that we will be resuming the recording of our debut album which is still untitled! We are having a brain storming session over the next week, all four of us have been given the task of coming up with some titles.

On the recording side, Romesh is currently going through his diary looking for some dates to finalise this epic recording process.
We are very excited to finally be moving forward with this!

In other news we have re-booked time back at the Cottage in West Wales, where we are to continue where we left off with the writing process.
This said writing process has fuelled the idea of recording and releasing a bootleg E.P ourselves.
We'll be putting this release out and will be running the release in CD, Digital and Vinyl form.
This release will be very limited and it will be in aid of getting some songs for you to be able to purchase and have in your collection!

Given this period in between the completion of our album and its release we will be bringing this E.P out, songs are being chosen and finished at the moment.
It's a bit of a treat it will feature album B-sides along with future A-side tracks that we have been writing.

We have some shows coming up, first is @ Hobo's, Bridgend on Saturday 18th July. With our good friends in Tiger Please, Cuba Cuba & Straight Lines. This show is free, it's already had an overwhelming response so get down early if you intend on coming!

Here are some pictures from our endeavours in the cottage:

Peace!

Jonathan

Operations, communications, confrontations.

Hey guys, Jon here.

I just got out of hospital, I had keyhole surgery on my Left Knee this afternoon.
And I received some bad news....
The damage done to my knee is very extensive and i need to under go more surgery and have transplants of Cartilage and Bone to hopefully be able to repair the knee.

So its been a tough few hours to be able to digest.

Not sure what will be happening on the gigs front for a while as this may be putting me out of action. I'm not too pleased!
Obviously i will play the Funeral For A Friend show we have arranged as I will play in a chair if I have to!

We recently took a trip to West Wales last Friday to spend a few days in a Cottage. It was incredible to say the least, very nice vibe and we managed to create some fantastic soaring songs.
We came home earlier than expected but i was extremely happy with the outcome of songs we created.

More news to follow soon, as we plan to demo the songs pretty soon to forward to the label!
Unfortunately we have no updates on the Album and have no idea when it's being released or even finished.

I'll be uploading some video footage over the next few days of the cottage experience & of course many photos!
Keep looking out!

Jon

News!

Hey all,

Just to let you know that the gig at the Buffalo Bar, Cardiff with Ghostlines and Tiger please has been Cancelled. The gig will be rescheduled for a later date and we will keep you updated.

In other news the dates for our trip to "The Cottage" are coming closer and were all looking forward to working on the many new ideas and finnaly making them full songs and as jon said earlier, there will be video footage of the weekend for those who dont want to miss out. So keep watching!

In other news the poster for our FFAF gig on august 22nd in Maesteg town hall is up and ready.
These tickets are selling fast so if you are 100% committed to attending please contact Glyn Mills @ glyn.mills@talktalk.net for more information

More information and rehearsal pictures to come soon, till then keep watching this space.

Laters

Kyle
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Domain!

We have a DOT COM!

You can now access us directly via:

http://www.caesarsrome.com
http://www.caesarsrome.co.uk

Our brand spanking new website is in motion and will be up soon!
At the moment we are currently directing both domains right here!

We also have new email addresses, if you'd like to book us please contact the following:
band@caesarsrome.com

Individual emails are as follows:

ash@caesarsrome.com
jonathan@caesarsrome.com
kyle@caesarsrome.com
rich@caesarsrome.com

Peace!

Jon x

Rehearsal Blog #5

So this weeks rehearsal was to do one thing, and one thing only and that was prepare for the set for our Barfly Show which was last Thursday.
As per usual we spent about an hour making sure we were happy with the set we had picked, and spent more time writing new material.

We should really save all this brain flow for when we go to "The Cottage" on the weekend of the 26th of June.
We are going to spend 3 days in a cottage in the middle of nowhere in Wales writing and rehearsing our asses off!

We will be updating via twitter: @caesarsrome, @jdhopkins
And we will be uploading videos via our youtube account.

If you havent seen any of our videos yet please go and do so:
www.youtube.com/caesarsrome

Barfly Thursday 4th June
We supported the amazing "General Fiasco" who are from Ireland, along with us on the bill were our good friends in Death Quit Dancing.
We had an incredible night and the show was enjoyable despite my dodgy knee, which i'm having an operation on, the day we get back from the cottage! :(

So keep your eyes peeled, here are some photos from our last rehearsal.. not a lot going on!

Jon

Rehearsal Blog 4 & News!

So we all met up at the usual place and usual time at our outstanding rehearsal facilities @ Manic Rehearsal Studio in Bridgend!
As Kyle mentioned we've booked some dates for shows in the run up to some others.
First things first was to pick and rehearse a set that we want to play for the upcoming shows.

We are in the process of taking some ideas that we wouldn't normally pursue and take them into song form and go with it...

It was a laid back and relaxing rehearsal as we have booked some time away as a band but we will explain more on that later!
It was a nice change as Nigel the owner of the studio was around this week, and he spent some time with us talking!
He's pictured below!

NEWS:

We are pleased to announce that we have been picked to play alongside FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND @ Maesteg Town Hall for an amazing charity event!

This will be on August 22nd 2009!

This week in photos:

News!

Hey all!

Its been a while since ive been on the good old blogspot.

So for all of you that have been on jon's and our Twitter (www.twitter.com/caesarsrome) You would have noticed that we are going to do an uber updating session on our rehearsal's on the 26th-28th of June.

Right now we cant say where we will be but the updates we will send you will include video diaries as well (and for all those that saw our studio diaries, you know theres bound to be some moments to see)

More on that real soon!

No then on to some more news...

WE GOT NEW DATES!!!

were grabbing the next pirate ship to these dates:
4 Jun 2009 20:00 Barfly w/ General Fiasco Cardiff, Wales

22 Jun 2009 20:00 Buffalo Bar w/ Ghostlines & Tiger Please Cardiff, Wales

17 Jul 2009 19:30 The Racehorse Northampton

18 Jul 2009 20:00 Hobo’s w/ Cuba Cuba, Tiger Please, Said Mike Bridgend, Wales

There will be more, oh yes there will be more.

so till next time keep watching the space

www.myspace.com/caesarsrome

More news to come soon

Kyle
CR
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Tickedy Tock..

So we haven't updated in a week or two!
This week we are taking a break from rehearsal, so we'll find ourselves stuck to our computer chairs updating everything that we have created digitally, well two of us will!

In other news, we've booked some shows!
You can have a look at them here: http://www.myspace.com/caesarsrome

We use Twitter!
As i'm sure you do by now too, you can catch up with more regular happenings there too!

http://twitter.com/caesarsrome

You can also follow me @jdhopkins on twitter!

I'm sure we'll be picture updating again very soon!
Keep your eyes peeled!


Reccomendations:

Musaaac:
Taking Back Sunday - New Again
Closure In Moscow - First Temple
Tiger Please - www.myspace.com/tigerplease

T.V:
Lost
Prison Break
The Inbetweeners

Movies:
Star Trek!

more soon!

Jonathan x

Rehearsal 3

So bright eyed and busy tailed we stepped in for another rehearsal writing session.
A brief and short session led us to still play around with heavier tunings, we found ourselves playing many lines of songs that were all familiar to us.
I.e Cover song Jams.

Tomorrow is Ash Cocco's birthday, the boys are celebrating it at the early hours and before hand this evening at the Cancer Bats show @ The Barfly.
Unfortunately I can't make it due to work commitments and a severe lack of funds!
I'm sure they'll enjoy themselves!

No pictures updates today, as we found ourselves not being very inventive at all.
We're going to be rehearsing for the upcoming shows we have shortly and also some exciting shows to announce!

Currently watching Schindlers List & cannot wait for the next Prison Break episode later today!

Peace

Jon
CR

Pre-hearsal

So myself and Kyle spent some time putting down guitar ideas this evening.
We do it from time to time, concentrate on finer structures and guitar ideas as we have no pounding drums and bass in our ears, pure guitar pleasures.
It's been really difficult narrowing down some of our new ideas as their all over the place at the moment, different styles and we seem to be changing them all the time.

It can only be a good thing!
So i thought I'd post some pictures of our inventiveness!

Currently:

Listening:
Gallows - Grey Britain
Balmorhea - All Is Well, All Is Silent
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Bluetip - Join Us

Reading:
Jeremy Clarkson - For Crying Out loud

Writing / Rehearsal Blog Two!

So here we are again, same time, same place.
We stripped it back even more today and had our usual four piece set up, no keys no laptops just Rock & Roll!
I decided to pick up my Telecaster today! The "Off White" number, as I haven't used her for a while.
Tunings galore! We picked some heavy & some bright ones and continued on with our jams.
We have two or three songs slowly starting to take shape, no doubt once the bare bones are set things will start to layer and change a lot, the rest are generally lost in oblivion and we continue delaying our guitars and being struck with euphoric sounds and pretty uncontrollable re verbs.

One of the chaps who works at the rehearsal studio popped in, in the pictures below you can see the results of a car incident being that his poor front bumper has been completely removed from the car!

We unfortunately had to cancel one of our shows which would have been on Sunday due to our van issues and continual work constraints! But none the less once the record drops we will be on that road continually for a good while!
Chats continue on where we plan on taking next weeks writing session so stay tuned for more updates!

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