Room 94 | 3 Brothers 1 Kit Tour Experience

On Wednesday July 17th, I went with two of my friends to see my favourite band Room 94 in concert on their 2013 summer tour with the title "3 Brothers 1 Kit Tour" 

Room 94 are an unsigned band which consists of 4 young lads from North London (UK). The band is made up of 3 brothers, Kieran Lemon (lead vocals and guitar), Dean Lemon (drums) and Sean Lemon (guitar) and are joined by their friend Kit Tanton who plays bass.

From left to right: Sean, Kieran, Dean and Kit

I first heard of Room 94 at the end of 2011 when I was browsing through twitter and they followed me. I listened to a few of their songs and instantly fell in love with the band and their music. It turned out that they were supporting a band called Twenty Twenty on tour who I had already booked tickets to see. So as you can imagine when I realised they were the support I was incredibly happy.

After watching Room 94 perform on the TT tour, I met them afterwards. I was pushed into Kieran which made me panic slightly, but Kieran told me he liked my shirt and my voice and hugged me but our chat was cut short as a girl fell into him (I think she may have had a few too many) so I made a quick escape and stood near Kit. Kit then asked me whether I was going to their summer tour that year, which unfortunately I couldn't go. Never the less, he gave me a leaflet and then carried on chatting to other girls who were mulling around waiting to get a photo with the support acts. 

I bought their mini album 'Loud Noises' at the merch stall and I was impressed with how great it was and slightly baffled as to why they weren't more popular. 

Following this gig I made sure to tweet the band account and the individual accounts telling them of the great experience, although I think I deleted these tweets ages ago as they no longer appear on twitter if I try and search through 7000 tweets of mine. 

The 'Loud Noises' album was probably my favourite album of that year. It was perfect to listen to when on long drives through the countryside, on the beach on a summers day, or on rainy days. It still is one of my favourite albums to this day (which is saying a lot, because I own plenty).

When I heard that Room 94 were supporting Lawson on their tour earlier this year, I was bummed because I couldn't get tickets and so many of my friends went. This only encouraged me to make sure that I got tickets when they did their headline tour this summer.

The tickets went on sale I made sure to snap 2 tickets up that day. Then they announced they were releasing VIP tickets and I was determined to get 2 tickets. I have to catch a train after all gigs and I wouldn't have had a chance to hang around and meet everyone afterwards as I'd miss my train so the VIP sounded like a great opportunity.

Luckily I managed to get the two VIP tickets I wanted, and it just so happened that my friend Jo had got a VIP ticket too. I first saw her at the TT gig on her birthday but I was too scared to approach her so I messaged her on twitter a few months back instead when I managed to find her! 

We agreed that we'd meet up during the day and wait for their tour bus to arrive after getting some lunch (which is exactly what we did).

The day of tour arrived, and naturally I was very excited. I made sure that my friend met me very early so I could get the bus and train into Brighton to meet Jo. 

I remember being quite apprehensive when waiting at Brighton station for Jo to meet us and I've got absolutely no idea why! 

After she arrived and we'd done the initial hugging and chatting we decided to go to and grab some lunch at Maccy D's, quickly pop into Hollister because my friend Harry wanted to grab some boxers in the sale and then go and wait by the venue. 

Turns out we arrived at the venue at 12.30 and had a very very long wait for the band to arrive. We saw 3 others girls wandering around which we could tell were going to the gig.

I managed to get burnt, but it was totally worth it. I think it was 3(ish) before Room 94 arrived at the venue but when we saw the tour bus go around to the back of the venue, I called out to two girls stood at the front to follow us. We made friends with them as they were incredibly lovely girls roughly the same age as us. 

We had to wait for 15 minutes round the back of the venue before the boys got out of the van and helped unpack the equipment for the evening.

Kieran was the first to come and talk to us then Dean. Kit wandered off for a cheeky cigarette and Sean went inside. We then decided it was probably best we go round to the front of the venue to ensure we got a good place in the queue. 

There was only us 5 who greeted the boys from the bus and 6 other girls outside the venue for over an hour before anybody else arrived but only 3 of us were VIP. We all made friends and agreed to meet up in the gig after we got out of VIP which we did towards the end of the night.

VIP was manic. There was more people than I'd expected there to be but it made it all the more fun. It took us 40 minutes to get a photo and chat with Kit and Sean and we ended up having 15 minutes to try and get Kieran and Dean in. They were surrounded by other fans which made it incredibly hard to but we managed to have a nice chat and have our photos taken. 

After the VIP meet and greet, Harry, Jo and I ran down the stairs and into the venue to ensure that we got first or second row which we did. There was two really lovely girls next to us (one of which looked like Carrie Fletcher but never the less) and we ended up serenading each other with All Time Low and One Direction lyrics when they were played into the venue.

We waited patiently for the first support act (The Ratells) to come on, who absolutely rocked the stage and interacted with the crowd a treat. The second support act was The Last Carnival who are local to us and are from Brighton. They were also fantastic!

I'm so glad Room 94 picked The Ratells and The Last Carnival as support acts as they were both the kind of genre of music I'd pick to listen to anyway, and they were a great laugh.

Then Room 94 came on stage and as you can all imagine everybody became slightly erratic and the whole venue erupted with screaming girls (and a few boys who attended). 

I literally cannot fault the boys at all for their set or how they conducted themselves. They remain so genuine no matter how many fans they gain and always try to please everyone by adding some old songs and new songs to the set list.

I had an absolutely incredible night (even if I could barely hear or walk the following day and I've never been so sweaty in my entire life). I was able to share the experience with some lovely people and I also was able to meet some great people too. 

I will definitely keep attending Room 94 gigs for as long as they stay together. I know that being at one of their gigs is when I'm happiest and I was so sad when it came to an end. 

I'm seeing them again in October when they support Lawson on their autumn/winter tour and hopefully I'll be able to meet them before or after but we'll just have to play it by ear.

Were you a part of the tour?

Which date did you go to?

What were your thoughts?