...BIO...
After initially meeting in a schoolgirl’s Wiltshire bedroom, way back in 2006 dual guitar-botherers Charlie Romijn and Deej Dhariwal found their glue in 13 year old drummer Guy Metcalfe, who they first witnessed playing a gig down the local pub in the already well established post-rock band he’d formed with his older brother.
At only their second gig together, they met a nice man who introduced himself as ‘Fat Paul’ and claimed to co-own a record label with the bloke from Portishead; he offered to sign them then and there and they naturally assumed that this was pure nonsense.
However, a couple of weeks later they found themselves standing in the kitchen of a Bristol recording studio, drinking tea with Julian Cope and making plans to record their first album for Invada Records; a label they’ve now been working with for more than 15 years.
This surreal trajectory continued with the trio being invited to perform at the legendary ATP Festival several times and in spite of the drummer always having to get back early for school the next day, they spent the next few years either in the studio or on the road; making records, travelling all over the world making a racket and supporting incredible bands such as Portishead, 65Daysofstatic, Beak>, Esben and the Witch, Marmozets… The list goes on.
Somewhere along the way, they welcomed Portishead / Get The Blessing bass player Jim Barr into the fold as a full-time member as well as long-time producer. Oh and they got asked by ROBERT SMITH from THE CURE to play at his Meltdown Festival. (They said yes.)
That about covers it up until the end of last year, when they released “Clean”.
Thought Forms are thrilled to be playing at ArcTanGent in 2023.
At only their second gig together, they met a nice man who introduced himself as ‘Fat Paul’ and claimed to co-own a record label with the bloke from Portishead; he offered to sign them then and there and they naturally assumed that this was pure nonsense.
However, a couple of weeks later they found themselves standing in the kitchen of a Bristol recording studio, drinking tea with Julian Cope and making plans to record their first album for Invada Records; a label they’ve now been working with for more than 15 years.
This surreal trajectory continued with the trio being invited to perform at the legendary ATP Festival several times and in spite of the drummer always having to get back early for school the next day, they spent the next few years either in the studio or on the road; making records, travelling all over the world making a racket and supporting incredible bands such as Portishead, 65Daysofstatic, Beak>, Esben and the Witch, Marmozets… The list goes on.
Somewhere along the way, they welcomed Portishead / Get The Blessing bass player Jim Barr into the fold as a full-time member as well as long-time producer. Oh and they got asked by ROBERT SMITH from THE CURE to play at his Meltdown Festival. (They said yes.)
That about covers it up until the end of last year, when they released “Clean”.
Thought Forms are thrilled to be playing at ArcTanGent in 2023.