Belfast Rockers Unquiet Nights Return With New Single "Last Days Of Rome"

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BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Nov. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Unquiet Nights are marking the next chapter of their story with "Last Days of Rome," a standalone single out now, and one that carries the weight of six years the band spent living and working in Italy.

Mathers wrote "Last Days of Rome" out of long stretches spent sitting on walls and marble steps around Rome during his twenties, absorbing what he calls the city's particular relationship with time. "You don't have to be religious for Rome to have an effect on you," he says. "You become aware of the vastness of time and how art lasts longer than cynicism."

In the Non-Catholic Cemetery, home to the graves of Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats, stands William Wetmore Story's Angel of Grief, a sculpture Mathers considers among the most beautiful in the world, both physically and in what it represents. In the song, one character turns to the statue and asks the other, "Would you be so, with your head hanging low, if underneath instead it was me?" The chorus carries a similarly universal charge: "This could be the start of an empire, or maybe these could be the last days of Rome."

Mathers and Firmin first began working on the guitar riff in 2011, once hoping to have it ready in time to support Russell Lissack of Bloc Party at London's Scala. It wasn't finished then, and it wouldn't be finished for another 15 years, until Mathers found himself sitting on a marble step near the Foro Italico in Rome and the pieces finally came together. The finished track was recorded at the band's own Credential Sound studio in Northern Ireland.

Formed above Belfast's Limelight club in 2010, the band earned early support from BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6 Music. Years spent based in Italy brought the band nine countries of touring, national television appearances alongside Sky Italia's use of their song "George Best City" as the soundtrack to a recurring documentary series, and a devoted Italian fanbase that has stayed with them since.

With "Last Days of Rome," Unquiet Nights open the next phase of that story, the first in a planned run of new singles, proof that some songs are worth waiting 15 years to finish.

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