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Black Ivy is an Australian rock band from Freshwater, Sydney, formed in 2017. It consists of Matt Battaglia ( Lead Vocalist, guitarist) Johnny Choy (Bassist, backing vocals) Jacob White (Drummer, backing vocals) and Alex Marano (Guitarist, backing vocals).

Early Years
Matt Battaglia and Johnny Choy started playing music together shortly after high school, branding themselves as "2 Second Warning" a duo mainly jamming classic rock covers. A few years after Matt met Tobi Atkins son of producer, choreographer and director David Atkins OAM through boxing and struck up a conversation between rounds about music, discovering Tobi played guitar in a numerous Heavy metal bands but had an ultimate love for Van halen and Matt was a die hard fan Glam rock especially bands like Bon Jovi, Def Leppard and other hard rock acts like Aerosmith, Guns N' Roses and Mötley Crüe. Once Johnny and drummer Joel Williams were brought into the mix the band originally known as Shotgun Romeo was formed.

After a meeting with EMI Music Australia A&R Representative Glenn Dickie, Shotgun Romeo recorded a four track EP Demo at Alberts Music Studios in Neutral Bay of the famous production group Albert Productions the studio that launched the careers of ARIA Charts hall of fame legends AC/DC, Rose Tattoo and The Angels (Australian band). Two Tracks from this EP featured on rotation on independent radio in Japan, this lead to their first feature in print media. Shotgun Romeo had a front page feature in News Corp Australia paper Manly Daily, and features in The Music (magazine).