Romeo's Daughter, The Toi - Hard Rock Cafe Glasgow

A healthy crowd filled Glasgow's Hard Rock Cafe for the welcome return of Romeo's Daughter to the live stage again, as the band prepared for an appearance at MonsterFest in Inverness the following evening with this warm up gig.

Local band The Toi were tonight's support act and again they were greeted like returning heroes with a few die hard fans at the front lapping up every song. The band ran through a tight set of melodic blues rockers mostly drawn from their album Water Into Wine, an album that vocalist and lead guitarist Paul joked had “tanked” its hard to fathom why when you hear the songs live. As they finish their set they are allowed an extra song and give us an impromptu version of Alannah Miles ‘Black Velvet’. The band are set to play at Winter Storm in Troon on Friday 29th November on the second stage and I would urge you to head on over there to check them out.

Romeo's Daughter had also been away from the live scene for a while as guitarist Craig Joiner recovered from a serious heart attack, but you would never know it. As tight as ever they run through a set of sing along hits from their four albums. Melodic rock at its highest quality Leigh Matty is as energetic and gorgeous as ever bouncing around the stage and leading the crowd as they sing along to classics such as ‘Attracted to the Animal in You’ and ‘Velvet Tongue’ alongside newer songs like ‘Radio’ and ‘Touch’ from the Spin album and the excellent ‘Bittersweet’ from the 2012 comeback album Rapture. The band finish with the huge ‘Cry Myself to Sleep’ before their standard set closer of ‘Wild Child’ has all in attendance nodding and singing along.
The band will be back in 2020 for a more extensive tour look out for dates to be announced.