Broken Heartbreakers
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:35 pm

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In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.(John 14:2)

“The Broken Heartbreakers wish to introduce themselves to the living room
of your interior life and rearrange the furniture. Every now and then in the earthly realms we catch a glimpse of a magic creature that has stepped out from the concrete walls and hard angles that surround us on all sides. Just for a moment, we catch that feeling of what it means to be alive. Yes. It's one of those records. It's country music for the bus down-town, spiritual music for top shelf believers, psychedelic music for those on the come down, rock and roll music for the thin hours when the only way you can tell you're real is by holding tight to the bones under your skin. Falling to pieces never felt so good. The only note of caution is that you may never want to get over it.” Mike Irwin Baldwin St, Dunedin June 2007

The Broken Heartbreakers are an Auckland-based “folk-pop” group. They started life in 2002 when song-writer John Guy Howell realised his heart was hurting a bit more than usual and he wanted to write some songs about it.
Howell teamed up with singer Rachel Bailey, and the nucleus of the group was formed. To their surprise, the band’s repertoire of songs of “love, loss and lonesome nights” soon garnered a loyal following beyond the usual
friends and family circuit. As their popularity has grown, the group has been chuffed to play at the bass player’s brother’s wedding and to support such international acts as Lou Barlow and The Handsome Family. Their soon to be released, self-titled sophomore, album is a labour of love. In its making,

The Broken Heartbreakers boldly chose to turn up their collective noses at today’s digital recording methods. As a result, their album was produced using only vintage analogue technology and was recorded and mixed to tape in “real time”. Real performances by real people. No digital effects were used in the making of this record. Plate reverbs, echo chambers and arse-burning valve amplifiers informed and enriched every loving detail. Indeed, the group loves to tell anyone who will listen, that David Bowie produced his seminal 1970s “Ziggy Stardust” album using the very same mixing desk. It isn’t true of course.

The band will be playing nationally in November/ December to promote the album release.

The touring band will consist of John Guy Howell, Rachel Bailey, Sam Prebble, Mike Stoodley (ex-Verlaines) and on drums Myles Allpress (Heavy Jones).

The Achy Heartbreaky Tour dates are:

November 17th – Raglan Arts Centre, Raglan
November 24th – Happy, Wellington
November 30th – The Dogs Bollix, Auckland
December 7th – Wunderbar, Christchurch
December 8th – Arc Café, Dunedin

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