| Royseven | |
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| Origin | Dublin, Ireland |
| Genres | Alternative rock |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Labels | Roadrunner Records |
| Website | royseven.com |
| Members | |
| Paul Walsh Sam Garland Eamonn Barrett Bernard O'Neill Darragh Oglesby |
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Royseven are a six-piece alternative rock band from Dublin, Ireland. They are known for songs such as "Crash" and "We Should Be Lovers", and have released two albums to date: The Art of Insincerity (2006) and You Say, We Say (2011). The band received the Hope for 2007 award at the 2007 Meteor Awards.
Royseven's influences vary from Muse, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, and Jeff Buckley to Pink Floyd, Rufus Wainwright, Keane and The Beatles.[1] They have enjoyed considerable success in Germany and played Oxegen in both 2007 and 2011 and Bud Rising in Ireland during 2007.
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Royseven came together in September 2003 and were then known as Jove. They were prominent on the Dublin music scene for a couple of years. In March 2005 they headlined and sold out Dublin's Olympia Theatre. They were the first unsigned act to do so.[2] In the summer of 2005, Royseven signed a deal with Universal Music Group. Their debut album The Art of Insincerity was recorded in Grouse Lodge studios and was released in Ireland in October 2006. It was produced by Marc Carolan in 2005. Marc is the front of house engineer for Muse. It was released in Germany and other German-speaking countries in May, with slightly different packaging.
Royseven performed at Oxegen 2007 and supported Kaiser Chiefs and The Fratellis at Bud Rising in Marlay Park in August 2007. "Crash" was released on 14 September 2007, the fourth single taken from their The Art of Insincerity album.[3]
Royseven completed the recording of their second album You Say, We Say, which was released in Ireland on Friday 11 March 2011. The album peaked at number 15 in the Irish Albums Chart. You Say, We Say is to be released in Germany in January 2012.
Royseven performed tracks from the album at various summer festivals including Oxegen 2011, Waterfront Festival, Tall ships Waterford, and the Rose of Tralee festival.
Royseven confirmed on their Facebook page that the first single taken from the album was "Killer" and the second "We Should Be Lovers". "Killer" was released in mid-November 2011 in Germany.
Royseven released "Dance" and "No Romance" as their 3rd and 4th singles from the album.
On 17 August 2011, almost six months after the album's release, You Say, We Say reached the number one spot on the iTunes download list.
"We Should Be Lovers" was the most played Irish song on radio in 2011.[4]
Paul Walsh, (Lead vocals) and chief songwriter grew up in Clonmel County Tipperary in a family of musicians and performers (his father was a showband saxophonist and clarinet player). Paul studied the piano as a child and started playing the guitar at twelve years of age; it was then that he started writing songs. He joined his first original band (Swerve) at the age of fourteen and played with them for four years. During his teenage years he also performed character roles in over 15 musicals and plays and undertook voice training at the Leinster School of Music. He relocated to London to attend university where he continued to receive formal voice training. He moved to Dublin to join Jove. Over the years he has presented various shows for RTÉ, including TTV and Off the Wall.
Sam Garland, (Lead guitar) started playing the guitar at the age of 9. He studied classical guitar from the age of 13 to 20. He then continued his studies in the Dublin Institute of Technology for two years majoring in classical guitar and piano attaining a grade certificate in classical guitar performance and sight reading. He travelled to California in 2000 for a year where he met guitar-smith Tom Anderson. He then completed a sound engineering course at the Sound Training Centre, Dublin achieving two City and Guilds diplomas with distinctions. He had been working as a sound engineer for four years in the factory studios in Dublin, while also performing and rehearsing in various bands. He is an identical twin.
Eamonn Barrett, (Rhythm guitar) comes from a family of musicians. He is a self taught guitar player who has featured in several original bands. He also played with Velveteen at the Manchester in the City Festival where they were voted one of the top ten bands at the festival by the NME. In addition, played and released with the Lost Poets including performances in the Olympia Theatre and the Point Theatre in Dublin. Eamonn toured the East Coast of the United States with the Brilliant Trees in 1998. He is also a popular DJ in Dublin city and has performed in the Red Box and the Morrison hotel to name but a few. He appeared in a recent Guinness Draught advert as part of a worldwide PR campaign for the drinks company.
Bernard O'Neill, (Bass) is a qualified sound engineer. He started playing the bass guitar when he was thirteen and was in a band called Maened for five years. At the age of 19 he went to Pulse recording college and qualified with a City and Guilds Certificate in Sound Engineering (basic and advanced). Bernard performed with Jenny Linfors on her first album and toured with her for three years. He was the production manager at the Factory Studios in Dublin. Bernard has engineered such bands and musicians as: The Corrs, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, Sarah McLachlan, Britney Spears and Van Morrison - all in his capacity at the Factory Studios.
Paul O'Hara, (Keyboard) started playing the piano at the age of fourteen. He is self taught and has played with Housebroken (led by The Commitments actor Robert Arkins) - who won the Sunday World Band of the Year Competition - and with Liquid Wheel who won a hot press award for Dance act of the year. Lego has recorded in Rac Studios and Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin. In total he has performed on two albums and three EPS (reaching the top twenty in Ireland and the Cool Cuts Charts in the UK). Lego has performed at Féile, Oxegen and the Point Depot in Dublin. In addition he has played on the same bill as Moby, David Holmes and Carl Cox in the SFX, Dublin.
Darragh Oglesby, (Drums) is a fourth generation drummer. He started playing drums in the world famous Artane Boys Band at the age of seven, where he remained for ten years, studying percussion and xylophone. During these years in performed in Carnegie Hall, Rushka Stadium (in Moscow), Sky Dome in Toronto and on Irish National television on several occasions. In addition he played support percussion for INXS and Perry Como when they visited Ireland. He toured Ireland with tribute bands for two years before joining jove. Dazzy also plays the piano and guitar and has studied at the Walton School of Music in Dublin.He is gorgeous.
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions |
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| IRL [6] |
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| 2006 | The Art of Insincerity | 17 |
| 2011 | You Say, We Say
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| "—" denotes a title that did not chart. | ||
| Year | Single | Peak chart position | Album |
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| IRL [7] |
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| 2006 | "Older" | 6 | The Art of Insincerity |
| "Happy Ever Afters" | — | ||
| "Crash" | — | ||
| 2007 | "I'm Revived" | 26 | |
| 2010 | "Killer" | — | You Say, We Say |
| 2011 | "We Should Be Lovers" | 1 | |
| "—" denotes a title that did not chart. | |||
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