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The Broken Family Band: new single and big tour
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written by Ged M
Sep 28, 2007.
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The Broken Family Band are busy boys during October. They have a new single, Leaps, available on 7” and download and they head out for their biggest UK tour.
Taken from the album ‘Hello Love’ (Track & Field), ‘Leaps’ is about sexual intercourse. According to the group “we thought it would be nice to celebrate one of life’s simple pleasures – doing it with your missus. It’s a song which celebrates the glory of having it off in the afternoon, but without being crude”.
The Broken Family Band have been known to play country music, but people change. You’ll notice that this isn’t country music (although it does utilize what The Times’ Steve Jelbert recently described as ‘the choogle’ when referring to the unique pop-rock path that the group have been forging in the past year or so). Leaps is pop music played on guitars, and done rather well, which is quite the treat in these mediocre times.
Leaps is in the key of A, which is a happy chord. It doesn’t go on for very long, and it finishes with a nice bit of jolly “rocking out”, ideal for a disco or family party. According to the group “it’s not very difficult to play”.
There is an accompanying promotional video, directed by the up-and-coming auteur Jonathan Hopkins (who’s Goodbye Mr Snuggles was a hit at this year’s Sundance) and featuring the band as tiny puppets, as well as a weird looking bloke with a beard, and an attractive lady called Alex Weaver (currently being made a fuss of due to the much-hyped internet TV series Kate Modern). You can see it on youtube, obviously, and it only cost £500 to make, thus sticking two fingers up at the music industry and its wasteful ways.
The b-side, Hold On To Your Love is very good as well, although it’s a bit more serious. According to the group “we wish this one was on the album as well, in hindsight. Any chance we can do one of those rip-off ‘special edition’ things?”
Tour dates are as follows:
4 Oct – Bristol, Thekla
5 Oct – Oxford, Zodiac
6 Oct – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
7 Oct – Leeds, Faversham
17 Oct – London, Koko
18 Oct – Manchester, Academy
19 Oct – Newcastle, Academy
20 Oct – Glasgow, King Tut’s
21 Oct – Birmingham, Glee Club
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