The Restless Gentlemen are four gentry of the Victorian era, out of their time, experimenting to find the correct melody, played at the perfect volume, to kick start their time machine to get them home.
Shortly after the Martian invasion of old London town in 1883, Richard Melancholia led a group of fellow scientists on a daring mission to investigate the alien technologies left behind, buried deep in the banks near Rotherhithe. Working painstakingly, and in secrecy from Government and outside influence, the scientists were able to rebuild the technology and build a machine capable of time-travel, enabled through musical stimulation. The scientists, excited by their discovery, soon began writing melodies designed to fully realise the potential of their discovery and named themselves The Restless Gentlemen in honour of their noble pursuits which could change the world.
Sadly, their music would soon be their downfall.
One blustery evening, and after just the right amount of ale at the local cake shop, The Restless Gentlemen set about their most ambitious effort to travel far into the future. In a moment that would change their futures forever, Mitch Balalaika boldly struck a chord that set the time machine into a frenzy, amplified by the stormy conditions and lightning crackling in the air above them, throwing the Restless Gentlemen 130 years into the future. Worse still, the machine that had propelled them and their fates forward into today was damaged during the transition, leaving the Restless Gentlemen unable to return back to their time and space, marooned in a strange world which has progressed far beyond their comprehension.
The Restless Gentlemen now meet regularly, pooling their musical and scientific talents in an effort to try and find the ideal melody, blending old-fashioned songcraft of love won and lost with new fangled technologies. Regular sharing of their music publicly across the South East of England has increased their confidence of finding the right melody, as the acoustics in public performances have been found to be the closest to those which led them to these modern times.