"Dr Dre meets Dr No" (Rolling Stone magazine, "10 Artists You Need to Know")

The Bombay Royale are an 11 piece outfit dedicated to honouring and reviving the funky, bizarre and mysterious music of vintage Indian films. The resulting sound is a rich palette of classic cinema, from lonesome spaghetti to surf-rock, from psychedelica to spine-bending space disco, overlaid with the voices of protagonists The Tiger and The Mysterious Lady.

The band has a strong cult following and has taken their unique sound to audiences worldwide (Glastonbury, Globalfest New York, Meredith, Boogie, WOMAD Australia/UK/NZ, Kennedy Centre Washington, Sakifo Reunion Island). They're gaining momentum. Their debut album 'You Me Bullets Love' won a place in the iTunes best of 2012 and was #1 on the iTunes World Music Charts. Their sophomore album 'The Island of Dr Electrico' (2014) received rave reviews and was featured on the video game FarCry 4, literally reaching millions worldwide.

In December the band return to home turf with a four-week residency at Howler (Brunswick) which will feature the full cinematic show with projections from Dean McInerney, plus a bunch of new tunes as they prepare to go back into the recording studio in 2016. 

"The Bombay Royale is where A.R. Rahman and Ennio Morricone converge, where Slumdog Millionaire meets Goldfinger head on, with Quentin Tarantino and Indiana Jones lurking in the corner.... Brash, brassy, bodacious and often cacophonous but never boring" - Tony Hillier (The Australian)