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You can keep your dating apps, your glossy playlists, your perfect lighting. Romantic Side by Wattmore – co-written with the mighty Allan Caswell – walks straight into the bar, buys you a bourbon, and lights a cigarette you didn’t ask for. The charm is reckless. The sentiment is messy. But the connection? Believe me – that hits, showcasing Wattmore’s Romantic Side.
This kind of love comes without instructions. It shows up loud, leans over the jukebox, breaks a few rules, and leaves you remembering too much the next morning.
Wattmore is Aiden and Kai Boak. One’s the multi-instrumentalist who probably dreams in guitar tabs. The other, a sonic troublemaker with a soft spot for distortion and theory-breaking riffs. Together, they chase feeling over polish, stories over structure, and soul over signal flow.
Aiden plays strings, sticks, vocals, all thrown together like a late-night diner order. He writes about life as it is: crooked smiles, cheap shots, missed calls. He’s not looking to impress, just looking to connect.
Kai? He digs. Into sound, into tone, into chaos. He brings in that twist – a punk-bent wildness that gives Wattmore’s music its edge. You’ll hear the care in every hook, but don’t expect him to follow any rules. He’s too busy setting his own, contributing to Wattmore’s romantic side in music.
There’s nothing cookie-cutter about the way this track breathes. Slide guitars bend like they’ve lived a few lifetimes. Warm organs roll in like a second wind. Background players bring heat, but never crowd the flame. You get the sense everyone in that room felt something – and that something made it onto the record.
They show up, do what the song needs, and vanish without ceremony. That’s how the good ones work. Wattmore brings them in not to decorate, but to amplify. And that’s what I call class. Add to that Lindsay Waddington behind the desk, and you’ve got a studio session that probably ran on instinct and good coffee, capturing Wattmore’s Romantic Side.
Let’s talk about the lyrics. “It brings out the romantic side of me,” they sing – and yeah, it does. But not with flowers. It does it with spilled drinks and barstool banter. This is the kind of romance that shows up unshaven, says the wrong thing, and still gets a second chance.
It’s grounded. It’s rough-edged. And it actually gets how people meet. The seventh bourbon, the wobbly game of pool, the rules tossed out the window – this is courtship, Wattmore-style. And honestly? It’s refreshing to hear something that sounds like it was lived, not scripted.
Behind Wattmore’s swagger is a crew that runs like a back-alley jazz club. Unpredictable, soulful, and somehow always on time. Kim Ferguson keeps the chaos in check like a caffeinated octopus with perfect Wi-Fi, juggling press, gigs, and whatever emergency rolls in at midnight or even later. David Boak, the road manager, doesn’t care much about EQ’s and stuff. He just knows how to load a van, keep the cables from strangling anyone, and find the nearest pub like it’s muscle memory.
And then there’s Allan Caswell – a songwriting heavyweight who stepped in, sharpened the pen, and helped carve this thing. Lindsay “Waddo” Waddington, their producer, knows exactly when to let the take roll and when to shut it down. You can hear his fingerprints – not over the track, but through it.
Stream Romantic Side on Spotify. Hit follow on Instagram, X, and Facebook. Then go outside and live a story worth singing about. And if you’re feeling bold – maybe buy someone a drink instead of DM’ing them.
Written by: Flav
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