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The Broken Family Band rose from the ashes of ‘several crap indie bands and a pretty good post rock band’ in post-millennial Cambridge (i.e. around 2001).
“The first nice thing outside our own little world was getting a call from John Peel on a Sunday morning saying he liked our first record. It was like a pat on the back from your favourite uncle,” says frontman Steven Adams. Their first mini-album The King Will Build A Disco appeared in 2002, to general bemusement and delight that East Anglia had produced its own leftfield Americana act. The following year saw their first full-length album, the more folksy Cold Water Songs, closely followed by the inventive, adventurous Jesus Songs mini album. In 2005 they released the spiteful, dark Welcome Home Loser, clad in a particularly magnificent sleeve, and 2006’s cunningly titled Balls sealed their position as Britain’s most unlikely indie-country-rock outfit, as they turned up the fuzz and put down the acoustic guitars. By 2007 the distinctly British-sounding Hello Love was well received across the board, the swaggering single ‘Love Your Man, Love Your Woman’ becoming something of an anthem.
Eight years later, The Broken Family Band have gradually shed the accordionists, the cute girl singers, the banjo players and even the American drawl, and reduced themselves to the unchanged core of Adams, bassist Gavin Johnson, guitarist Jay Williams and drummer Micky Roman. And they’ve made their best album so far.
“The first nice thing outside our own little world was getting a call from John Peel on a Sunday morning saying he liked our first record. It was like a pat on the back from your favourite uncle,” says frontman Steven Adams. Their first mini-album The King Will Build A Disco appeared in 2002, to general bemusement and delight that East Anglia had produced its own leftfield Americana act. The following year saw their first full-length album, the more folksy Cold Water Songs, closely followed by the inventive, adventurous Jesus Songs mini album. In 2005 they released the spiteful, dark Welcome Home Loser, clad in a particularly magnificent sleeve, and 2006’s cunningly titled Balls sealed their position as Britain’s most unlikely indie-country-rock outfit, as they turned up the fuzz and put down the acoustic guitars. By 2007 the distinctly British-sounding Hello Love was well received across the board, the swaggering single ‘Love Your Man, Love Your Woman’ becoming something of an anthem.
Eight years later, The Broken Family Band have gradually shed the accordionists, the cute girl singers, the banjo players and even the American drawl, and reduced themselves to the unchanged core of Adams, bassist Gavin Johnson, guitarist Jay Williams and drummer Micky Roman. And they’ve made their best album so far.
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Balls
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Please And Thank You
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Hello Love
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Cold Water Songs
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tropcia wrote:
It's All Over is so sadly beautiful. It makes me cry.
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stevo120665 wrote:
Been lucky to see them three times live. Sad to see them splitting up.
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emergingsynergy wrote:
I love this band.
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vegetubleman wrote:
You ain't got any cigarettes, cigarettes, cigarettes, cigarettes, cigarettes, cigarettes, cigarettes, cigarettes noooooooooh!
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maddix85 wrote:
splitting up after their october dates :-( gutted.
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Iantastic wrote:
The inconsistent auto-correcting for the tracks on Jesus songs really breaks my fucking heart.
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jennis- wrote:
welcome home, loser.
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claudiasilence wrote:
cool band consisting of cool people. love them.
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table-tale wrote:
they're awesome
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lalaluu wrote:
new album is great!!!
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lovelylynn wrote:
new album delivers.
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nesswhyte wrote:
Hello TBFB!! Why is our video not on your last.fm page, hmmmmm???? Hope you're all well. xxx
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cor3y wrote:
nice video.
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cor3y wrote:
please and thank you has leaked
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charlieshread wrote:
Check out this music video I created for "It's All Over" http://www.vimeo.com/3121652 Hopefully it does it justice.
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JaffaDeLancia wrote:
If you work in a whorehouse, you're gonna get fucked if you sleep in a river.
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VioletSilence wrote:
It's All Over <2
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analpolice wrote:
If you haven't seen them live then go the next chance you get i'm going to be seening them for the 15th time in december at cargo. Awesome live band.
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bateman84 wrote:
some link to "balls" album?
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CarJamming wrote:
Great band! I love the song "It's all Over"
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Pre-order Salivating and Please and Thank You
7 Jul 2008 | from www.thebrokenfamilyband.com/latest.xml
You can pre-order our wonderful new album and single from the lovely people at Record Store. See the news page for more information.
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News: New Shows - 3 Italian Dates
28 Feb 2008 | from www.thebrokenfamilyband.com/latest.xml
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