New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Hailing from south-east in Canterbury, Kent, exuberant alt-rock three piece Dramalove mix guitar based rock with electronic angularity and darkly poetic lyricism. The band started out in 2005 under the name of No Gravity in Turin, a city surrounded by the Alps in the north of Italy, and originally featured twin brothers
Diego Soncin (lead singer/guitarist) and Riccardo Soncin (bassist) along with Francesco Torrisi on the drums. Covering Nirvana, Placebo, Muse and punk rock songs while steadily building a catalog of original material, they quickly gained notoriety around Italy for their look, their sound and brief but frantic live shows.
In 2009 they got signed from Bliss Corporation and reached #7 of the italian charts with the single Stelle, with the music video on heavy rotation on national Mtv. After touring across the country several times, in 2012 Francesco left the band, Dramalove split from the label and after a multiple changing of line-up the twin brothers were introduced by a friend in Milan to Dimitri Merati, who joined the band in occasion of their first east-European tour, with shows in Poland, Ukraine and Russia.
In 2015 Dramalove reached the semi-final stage of that year's edition of the talent show X-Factor, of which the italian version allowed bands to apply and team up with artists such Skin from
Skunk Anansie and Mika. Even though they consider this an important and remarkable experience, this was the event that triggered the band's desire to move away from Italy, looking for some more live music and less tvoriented avenues. With a fair amount of bravado and a putting-in-the-work attitude, Dramalove fast gained a dedicated local following in Canterbury, and summer 2017 already saw them touring across the country with gigs in Sheffield, Nottingham, Leicester and London.
Their first full-english Ep is titled "How To Wear A Broken Heart" and it includes 5 songs picked up from a selection of 20 demo songs package that the band managed to home-record during this first year and a half living in the U.K. It has been mastered in Ashford at the Anchor Baby Recording Company and is due to be released in early 2018, with the single "Play With You" coming out the 24th of November along with the music video.
THE BAND:
Diego Soncin // Vox and guitar
Riccardo Soncin // Bass
Dimitri Merati // Drums
UPCOMING GIGS:
Nov 04 - Folkestone - The Harp Restrung
Nov 06 - London - Nambucca
Nov 11 - Southampton - The Fire House
Nov 23 - Brighton - The
Prince Albert
Jan 10 2018 - NME Presents @The Monarch - London
Social Links:
https://www.facebook.com/dramalove Twitter:
https://www.twitter.com/dramaloveitalia
https://www.instagram.com/instadramalove
https://www.dramalove.co.uk
