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Rumours spread in Colombo
By Sanath Weerasuriya
‘Rumours’ is not an unknown name to the Colombo music scene. They’ve been in the scene for quite sometime and had performed in popular places like ‘The Keg’, ‘Colombo - 2000’ ‘CH&FC’, ‘Hippos’ and SSC to name a few.

This talented five young musicians are now ready to expand their horaizon more into the Colombo music in the coming months. “We play regular contracts at the Colombo Swimming Club and Warehouse and most of the C-Vibes places. It was not an easy job to perform at these places. You must have a good repertoire to go on stage”, said Neomal, the leader of the band.

Rumours comprises Neomal, Duminda Dayal, Sampath and Narendra. Neomal, the leader of the band is the vocalist and plays guitar too. He does the most of the vocals for the band and has the talent of changing the voice to suit the song and the style. As for the most Retro, Classic and Country Rock to the hard ones from the Credence, Direstrait, Bryan Adams, Paul Simon to Santana are in their repertoire.

Duminda is the Basist of the band and a self thought guitarist, who changed his instrument from the piano to the bass. A lot of harmony as well as the Country Rock type of song. “He’s a real go-getter and he is my right hand. He helps me with the arrangements in the music”, Neomal said.

Dayal, the lead guitarist is a technically correct guitarist of the line up. He rocks with his superb guitar play and he likes playing Guns & Roses, Santana, Eagles, Eric Clapton stuff. He handles vocals as well. Sampath is the keybordist of the band, who plays guitar as well. “He has a good ear and great Piano touch and sings the Gypsy King style”, leader Neomal said.

Narendra, the drummer boy has a great style in playing. “We all are working working musicians. That means, we work in our respective offices during day time, but involved in music too. We work hard in the music field. It is a challenge for part time musicians like us”, he said.

“Rumours played for New Year’s gig on April 10 for the first time in Kandy at the “Blackout” Night Club at Swiss Residence.“We are working on our originals and that’s our main goal to release a couple of original English songs to the airwaves”, Neomal explained.

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