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I have been recommended to go see Broken Records for quite a long time by Adam and John and finally I was able to catch them play at Mono Water Rats in Kings Cross. The 7 piece band certainly knew how to rock.

Both support bands used backing tracks played from a computer, the first band, Arthur Rigby and The Baskervylles was a two piece and featured a mac book pro for backing tracks, they were pretty neat. The second, De Rosa weren’t too interesting to be honest, I didn’t really enjoy it.

Broken Records next, they seem to have picked up a following, the guy next to me whom I shall call “THE Jelly Man” (based on the way he moves during the show) was deep into the performance, constantly voicing his approval of the band with epic shouts of praise even though he was at the front where the band could hear him clearly. I suppose it was the jelly dance that worried me more though.

The band played 12 songs; Nearly Home, If the news, And they all fell, Lover’s pacts, Until the earth, A promise, Thoughts on a picture, Wolves, A warniing, If Eilert Loevborg, A Good Reason and Slow Parade.

Here’s a video of Thoughts on a picture, he used a ukulele for this and people instantly cheered on that:

The last few songs really stood out the most and got the audience going, promising fans a reason to headbang and rock out to their more upbeat numbers. They finished on Slow Parade and thanked the audience. Here’s a video of it:

We originally assumed an encore to ensue but that never really came which was bit of an anticlimax. Nonetheless the show was definitely one worth going.