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The Guestz are just four blokes who play rock'n'roll as it has to be played: raw, rude, loud but yet catchy. They'll kick your ass and make you dance.This bad-mannered combo from Rome, Italy features the handsome Mimmo God on lead vocals, Rome's living legend Jonna on guitar, japan-addicted Rob'n'Roll on left-handed bass and Matt on indisputably loud drums.They formed in late summer of 2006: Jonna and Mimmo were putting up some ideas for a new band, while Matt and Rob'n'Roll (already partners in crime in a The Darkenss tribute called The Brightness ) were basically looking for the same thing.So, the band was ready, they needed a name. But, before finding it, they found a chance to play their first gig supporting german rock band Soul Doctor on their date in Rome. The flyer said "Soul Doctor + Markonee + guests", so Jonna had the idea: "Let's call us The Guests, so to have our name on the flyer!", said with his flamboyant 100% roman accent. The others agreed... simply because they had no other suggestions!First rehearsals showed they do rock, and the motto "not for money, just for glory" (a line from their song "Ten years in jail", written by Jonna for another project) seemed to be tremendously fitting.After a couple of days, they found TWO bands on Myspace called "The Guests", so they decided to slightly change the name into The Guestz, which sounds a lot more sleazy and will make hair metal fans very happy!
The band is currently promoting the debut cd "Not for money, just for glory".
18/07/2008 - Rock City (Roma) Roma Caput Glam Fest 2 - with New Babylon , Dirty Pleasure and Killer Shot 17/07/2008 - Rock City (Roma) - jam session featuring members of The Guestz and many others 05/07/2008 - Summer Glam Attakk festival, Torino - with Gemini Five , Hollywood Killerz and more 13/06/2008 - Jailbreak , Rome - with Eurosmith 30/05/2008 - Big Bang , Rome - supporting Kee Marcello (ex Europe) 14/05/2008 - Sinister Noise (Rome) , plus New Babylon and Dirty Pleasure 01/03/2008 - Alkatraz , Fiumicino (Rome) - with Glassmode 20/01/2008 - Jailbreak , Rome (opening for Soul Doctor and Markonee) CANCELLED 15/12/2007 - Jungle Club , Rome CANCELLED 03/11/2007 - Fuze Pub , Tivoli (Rome) - with Krys 27/10/2007 - Alkatraz , Fiumicino (Rome) - with Krys 28/07/2007 - Alkatraz , Fiumicino (Rome) - with Jailbreak 03/04/2007 - Stazione Birra , Rome - opening for Adam Bomb 07/03/2007 - Jailbreak , Rome - Rome 'n' Roll festival with Krys and Landslide Ladies 28/02/2007 - Linux Club , Rome - with Krys 10/10/2006 - Stazione Birra , Rome - opening for Soul Doctor and Markonee 09/10/2006 - Linux Club , Rome - opening for Surgery

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/23/2006
Band Website: theguestz.com
Band Members:
the voice, rhythm guitar

loud guitar & piracy

left-handed bass

drums & cowbell

Sounds Like: ROCK N ROLL FRACICO!!!
Record Label:
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Press (ITA)

**** NOT FOR MONEY, JUST FOR GLORY ****Metal Wave [76/100] I Guestz nascono a Roma dall'incontro di varie influenze metal apportate dai componenti della band. Il risultato è un rock'n'roll puro e grez...
Posted by THE GUESTZ on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:06:00 PST

Hoydays for us - thank yous for you all

This post is intended as a huge thank you to all the people that made the last 3 months absolutely unforgettable to us!Since the release of the cd, we have played the best performed and most successfu...
Posted by THE GUESTZ on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:52:00 PST

Live report - The Guestz live @ Rockcity

Another great show, this time at Rockcity! The second edition of the Roma Caput Glam went pretty good, despite two bands had a last minute defection: Dirty Pleasure's bassist left the band a couple of...
Posted by THE GUESTZ on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:08:00 PST

Press (ENG)

Sleaze Metal [8/10]"The Guestz" are from Italy and the band was founded in Rome in 2006. You can definitely call their music typical 80s sleaze rock with a touch of kick ass r'n'r! There's a funny sho...
Posted by THE GUESTZ on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:19:00 PST

Live Report - The Guestz @ Summer Glam Attakk + aftershow pics

The Summer Glam Attakk festival has been a memorable experience, but not exactly the way we expected. Rob, Matt and Mimmo left Rome for Turin in the late morning of friday, expecting to arrive around ...
Posted by THE GUESTZ on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:02:00 PST

Listen to the Glamattakk Festival on the radio - live!!!!

Can't make it to the Glamattakk Festival? You can actually be there somehow! Radio Torino Rock will stream the whole Glamattakk festival! Listen to the live performances of The Guestz, Gemini Five and...
Posted by THE GUESTZ on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:43:00 PST

Latest news before we leave for Torino

We hope to see you all saturday at the Summer Glam Attakk festival in Torino, with Gemini Five, Hollywood Killerz, Rakel Traxx and Tabby Cats. Here's some more info: we will start at 9 PM so don't be ...
Posted by THE GUESTZ on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:29:00 PST

Live report - The Guestz live @ Jailbreak

The last show in Rome before the summer holydays happened the same day of an important football match: Itay - Romania. Despite the match was at 6 pm, and not in the evening, it caused an obvious delay...
Posted by THE GUESTZ on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:05:00 PST

Summer news - gigs and future plans

Two great news to be shared with you: first one is that we are discussing about the chance of filming a videoclip for one of the songs of the cd. As soon as we have someth...
Posted by THE GUESTZ on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:22:00 PST

Live report - The Guestz @ Big Bang

Finally, we made it to have the cds printed, and this has been the first show after the release. It's been a bit tricky to set up the stage, considerging that we were opening for Prisoners In Paradise...
Posted by THE GUESTZ on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:08:00 PST