"Psychedelic burglar related world-pop from an innercity forest in Leeds"
The Leeds based Roguish triplet came together through a meeting of musical ideas at a course run by local charity Cloth Cat. The common desire to create a tight unit to play quirky yet accessible, sometimes cheeky songs, led to an exchange in ideas between the three members. With strong influences from the 60s + 70s pop / psychedelia, folk, jazz, afrobeat, dub, reggae and other Global sounds; the resulting songs come across as catchy, well written and slightly lo-fi, yet not really sounding like anything but Digo, Karim and Woody.
The first gig for the band was for a Charity event arranged another member of the Cloth Cat course, promoting Burglary Awareness around Leeds 6. The band continued to work together and with other members of the group, playing charity events, gigs and mini festivals for Coniston Music Festival, Unity Day, Raise The Roof, Stage Flight, NCM Room, Stez and Tom, Cloth Cat, LMUSU (World Music Day), and various house parties along the way.
Hyde Park Heat:“Classic British songwriting first up from Roguish Stranger, with hints of The Kinks and Belle & Sebastian among others. Lightweight, but packed with melody, poetry and twee goodness. Really like the production as it’s full of twinkly layers and swirly organs, but tinny enough to let you know it was mostly plucked by quality musicians on real pieces of wood/metal.”
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