Rome to launch all new album ‘Gates Of Europe’ in August
Out via Trisol Music Group on the 25th of August 2023 is the all new Rome album “Gates Of Europe”. And as you will notice Jerome Reuter’s musical project Rome again connects to its Ukrainian audience apart from the occasional live appearance.
Since 2015, shortly after Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity and Russia’s covert invasion of the Donbass, the Luxembourgish singer-songwriter has regularly been including various Ukrainian cities on his European tours. Furthermore, Rome happened to give solo performances in Kyiv and Odesa only a few days before Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022; a time at which foreign residents and visitors were urged most strongly to leave the country at once.
A few months later, after having played several online charity shows in support of Ukraine, he returned for a solo appearance and thus was the first foreign artist to play a full-set show on Ukrainian soil since the beginning of the war. This appearance in July 2022 was used to gather donations for a refugee shelter in Lviv. In addition to that, one year to the day after Reuter’s last appearance in Kyiv, Rome played two already legendary full band shows in Lviv and Kyiv to commemorate the first anniversary of the beginning of the war.
Below are some videos that documented Jerome Reuter’s support for Ukraine.
“Gates Of Europe” starts off with a burst of the sounds of February 24th, 2022, the beginning of the full-scale invasion and proceeds almost chronologically through the first year of war. The 14 songs offer a glimpse on the inner life of a country that against all expectations is facing the storm with absolute resolve and courage.
Rome will also be hitting the road throughout the remainder of 2023 (including 3 dates in Ukraine). Dates include:
- 29.07.2023 UA-Lviv / Faine Misto Festival
- 25.08.2023 UA-Lviv / !FESTrepublic
- 26.08.2023 UA-Kyiv / Volume Club
- 01.09.2023 DE-Deutzen / NCN Festival
- 08.09.2023 PL-Aleksandrów L. / Summer Dying Loud Festival (solo)
- 16.09.2023 IE-Dublin / Wheelans (solo)
- 28.09.2023 FI-Helsinki / TBA (solo)
- 29.09.2023 SE-Stockholm / Bar Brooklyn (solo)
- 30.09.2023 NO-Oslo / Revolver (solo)
- 01.10.2023 SE-Gothenburg / The Abyss (solo)
- 06.10.2023 CH-Aargau / Musigburg
- 07.10.2023 DE-Frankfurt / Nachtleben
- 08.10.2023 DE-Cologne / Yard Club
- 10.10.2023 DE-Münster / Gleis 22
- 11.10.2023 DE-Hamburg / Nochtwache
- 12.10.2023 DE-Berlin / Frannz Club
- 13.10.2023 PL-Gdansk / Dizzly Grizzly
- 14.10.2023 PL-Krakow / Poczta Glówna
- 26.10.2023 DE-Dresden / Bunker
- 27.10.2023 DE-Nuremberg / Stereo
- 29.10.2023 DE-Munich / Backstage
- 01.11.2023 HU-Budapest / Dürer Kert
- 02.11.2023 RO-Cluj Napoca / Form Space
- 03.11.2023 RO-Bucharest / Fabrica
- 04.11.2023 BG-Sofia / Live & Loud
- 05.11.2023 RS-Belgrade / TBA
- 07.11.2023 AT-Vienna / Viper Room
- 08.11.2023 SI-Ljubljana / Orto Bar
- 09.11.2023 IT-Milano / Arci Bellezza
- 10.11.2023 DE-Freiburg / TBA
- 11.11.2023 BE-Aarschot / Porta Nigra Festival
- 18.11.2023 NL-Utrecht / Tivoli Vredenburg
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