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Ewan Shepherd started writing and recording songs in his bedroom when he was 14 years old. The problem is, he couldn’t play any instruments. He enlisted his dad and brother to help him record a skiffle EP; the drum beat was hand-taps on his knees, and the microphone was a robot voice-filter – it was just like ‘Abbey Road’. With a little help from his friends, those demos eventually became The Room Upstairs’ debut EP, ‘Flaming Lucy’, which was a bona fide hit… at school.
Ewan’s classmate Joe Conway heard ‘Flaming Lucy’, and likened it to the record collection he was mining: his grandparents’. What’s more, he actually could play an instrument – the guitar. At parties and on the playground, the two began swapping artists and sharing dreams of recording an album like ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ or ‘Sgt. Peppers’. In a short while, they became the consistent creative collaboration at the heart of The Room Upstairs.
Nine years, three albums later, and they’re still at it – two friends making music about life crises, existential dread or just running out of milk.
And love, of course. Let’s not forget love.
Ewan’s classmate Joe Conway heard ‘Flaming Lucy’, and likened it to the record collection he was mining: his grandparents’. What’s more, he actually could play an instrument – the guitar. At parties and on the playground, the two began swapping artists and sharing dreams of recording an album like ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ or ‘Sgt. Peppers’. In a short while, they became the consistent creative collaboration at the heart of The Room Upstairs.
Nine years, three albums later, and they’re still at it – two friends making music about life crises, existential dread or just running out of milk.
And love, of course. Let’s not forget love.
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