Appeared on Sat 24 Jan 09 @ The Black Box | Belfast (with guests Panda Kopanda and Robyn G Shiels)
To date The Broken Family Band have released two mini albums and four full-length albums. They’ve performed more sessions for Mark Lamarr than any other band. John Peel was a big fan. The use of their song ‘It’s All Over’ on the Skins television programme soundtrack has led to the unwanted attention of beautiful teenagers from all over the world. Singer Steven Adams is the only living human being to have performed sessions on BBC Radios 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6Music.
Guests on their records and plastic flower-strewn stages have included Lau’s Martin Green, Eddi Reader and The Be Good Tanyas. Their commitment to folk music is unparalleled; they’ve performed on the main stage at the Cambridge Folk Festival twice, (although are now banned, after playing a heavy metal set on the Avalon Stage at Glastonbury to cheer up the folk-hating technical crew), yet have never claimed to be a folk group. They even gave up playing country music once they realised there were other people doing it.
They have received more critical acclaim than any other outfit of comparative size and now have a cult following made up of portly men over 30 and attractive ladies of all ages.
Their latest album, “Please And Thank You” sees them delve further into their peculiarly English take on rock music, with folky melodies sat atop chunky indie-rock guitar riffs and big fat drums that could power a small village. And the lyrics are really good, as bloody usual.
with guests Panda Kopanda and Robyn G Shiels
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