The Rua - The Rua on CD

Description

Rua means essence of a group and the essence of The Rua are all members of the same family: 22 year old year old chanteuse Roseanna Brown provides voice and guitar, 24 year old Alanna Brown is responsible for piano and backing vocals and 19 year old Jonathan Brown plays violin and guitar and provides vocals and backing vocals. Of course, a further investigation of rua reveals that the word has a myriad of Gaelic connections and certainly the band have Irish blood flowing through their collective veins. Aside from the fact they all live together, The Rua also have a theatrical background: Alanna has appeared in the film Closer as well as no less than four Harry Potter movies whilst all of them appeared in Stormbreaker and Roseanna - who s appeared in three Harry Potter films - also appeared in Snow White and The Huntsman and the Thor movie. And that s not withstanding Jonathan of course, who has also appeared in one of the Harry Potters as well as Dark Shadows. The Rua are all classically trained pianists, violinists, singers - and have been members of many established choirs. Roseanna has a degree in Music from Royal Holloway - although all the band studied music at A Level and Alanna has a degree and Masters in Science - but before you start thinking that this must be some kind of operatic outfit let s get one thing clear: The Rua are an outlandishly-epic, indie version of artists like Fleetwood Mac and even Taylor Swift and the kind of band that hits the Coldplay/Snow Patrol nerve before you ve even gotten as far as their exceptional choruses. So yes, we have to say it: they re going to sell millions. In an era where manufactured pop is considered to be the height of creative ambition, a band like The Rua might be considered something of an anachronism. Except, of course, that if anything, The Rua beat the X Factor wannabes at their own game: they craft beautiful and epic tunes out of their own non-artificial artfulness. Live and on record the band are completed by ex Blondie bassist Nigel Harrison - co-writer of One Way Or Another and Union City Blues amongst other Blondie gems - and Portishead drummer Clive Deamer who s also drummed with Radiohead, Robert Plant, Roni Size and Siouxsie Sioux amongst others. Naturally, apart from absolutely destroying the average age of the band, they provide a unique, possibly symbiotic backdrop to this essential rock group a band you re going to remember for a long, long time.