Watch Oliver Sim and Shygirl be a part of Romy on stage at London’s Roundhouse
Romy has been joined by Shygirl and her bandmate from The xx, Oliver Sim, at reveals at London’s Roundhouse this week – take a look at the footage beneath.
The collaborations happened throughout Romy’s two ‘Membership Mid Air’ nights on the Camden City venue within the capital on April 10 and 11.
On the primary of the reveals, there was a mini-xx reunion between Romy and Sim, who carried out a mashup of the latter’s track ‘Fruit’ and the previous’s ‘Take pleasure in Your Life’.
“Final night time Membership Mid Air in London was further particular to me as a result of I used to be joined by an additional particular visitor Oliver!” Romy wrote in an Instagram submit after the present.
“My love, I’ve missed singing with you, I like you and thanks,” she added. “Thanks to everybody who got here and made it such an unimaginable night time.”
On final night time’s second present, Romy was joined by Shygirl, the place they carried out a mashup of Romy’s ‘The Sea’ and Shygirl’s current single ‘4eva’. Watch fan-captured footage of beneath.
Romy was additionally not too long ago joined by Peaches on stage in New York Metropolis, for a model of ‘Did I’ on March 29. The 2 additionally mixed on a brand new remix of the track, with an additional new verse from Peaches.
That track is taken from her debut solo album ‘Mid Air’, launched final 12 months. In a five-star evaluation of the document, NME mentioned: “Many of those songs will provide you with a prick of emotion in the back of your eyes – a positive signal that Romy actually appreciates the therapeutic energy of a packed membership ground.”
In the meantime, Romy revealed to NME on the finish of 2023 that The xx are at present again within the studio engaged on a “broad open” and “thrilling” fourth studio album.
Romy has since up to date NME about The xx’s time again within the studio collectively, sharing that they’ve “discovered rather a lot from our completely different solo initiatives”.
The artist was talking on the crimson carpet of the 2024 BRIT Awards, the place she was nominated within the Greatest British Dance Act class on the night time.
“We’ve been within the studio since I final spoke to NME and we’re within the studio once more subsequent week, so we’re assembly up usually,” she mentioned. “It’s been actually good. I believe we’ve all hung out aside and it’s wholesome to overlook one another.”
“We’re simply protecting it actually open and we’re up for attempting new issues, nevertheless it feels like us. That’s all I can say proper now.”
She continued that “to then have time aside and study new abilities, get new musical concepts and experiences and examine them… it’s been a wholesome break”.
Romy is ready to carry ‘Membership Mid Air’ throughout the Atlantic for 4 North American dates in July and August, with reveals in Washington, DC, Vancouver, Seattle and Portland. Any remaining tickets can be found here.