CHANDIGARH, Oct 31: With ambitions sky high, the four-member Goa-based band "Rome of the East" made city residents tap and dance to their tunes at the CII Fair' 99.Considering that all four members of the band were working on an album, the crowds' response, especially on Sunday evening, was encouraging. Talking to Newsline, 32- year-old Braulio Soares, the base guitarist and singer, said, "Our ambition is to do something big - if you talk of dreams then may be on an international level. It will be our composition in our own style. But for that we must start from what the public demands. We have to copy those who are making big right now."
Ulrich Gomes, who gave good performance of "Great balls on fire" and "Roadhouse blues", agreed, "First, we have to give people what they want to listen. When they are happy with that only then can we give them what we want them to listen by creating it."
Aspiring to introduce the concept of Hindi "boy bands"- " on the lines of Boyzone," as Bismark Pinto, the guitarist and singer, remarked. "But whatever we do, we believe in giving a performance that is power-packed and with full impact. For us our own involvement in the audience is a must," he added.
All the four members of the band, including Tony on drums hail from Goa, but met and formed the band in Delhi. "We started off with hotels and then formed the band and started performing in shows. Our album, which is in final stages with eight compositions of our own, will hit the market next year," said Bismark.
For Tony the drummist, otherwise a science teacher in Delhi, the romance with music started when "I was a kid and we had a radio at home. I used to listen to it and somehow I was so captivated that I decided to go ahead with it and now perform at shows."
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