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Desperate Romantics were born out of Jan Leonard's desire to perform
and record songs he had written over the past years. It had been tried before
by the Repeatles but never really successfully. A new band was needed to
separate things because creating new music and recreating old stuff are
totally different processes. Desperate Romantics is a natural continuation
of what Jan did with The Moderns and Strindbergs and what Steve did with
JAPOP. Pure Pop for Now People as Nick Lowe once said.

The whole idea is to make timeless guitar-based pop music with a punky and glamorous edge, and with meaningful and honest lyrics . "The goal is to make at least one great power pop album and to play those songs live to as many people as possible. People who love the Repeatles will love to hear something original from us after all these years. Mathew Street Beat and Queen of Karma went down well at the time".


The band released an EP, Romantic Revolution, on September 1, 2011 on their own Revol Records label.

 



 


 


 

The Repeatles started life in 1997 in Arnie Brox's garage in west Stockholm, where he and Jan Leonard Borgh rehearsed Beatle songs to play at some friends' wedding. The story could've ended there but somehow it didn't...

13 years and some 400 gigs later they are cruising along in their 14th year together, with fellow band members Peter Beckman and Steve Kling, towards an unknown future... "We're painting pictures, that never dries, trying to keep the feeling alive..."

Since 2003 the band have played more abroad than in their home country, Sweden. Largely thanks to International Beatleweek in Liverpool and connections made there, the band have had the opportunity to tour and play in South America, USA, Canada, Belgium, Finland and the UK. Sure, they have a following in Sweden and always pull a crowd of die-hard fans, but internationally is where the Repeatles' brand of "tribute-acting" works best.

To anyone who has ever had the pleasure of catching these guys in a club or on a big stage somewere in the universe,
thanks for keeping the Power Pop and the Maximum R&B alive...