Live at Bedlam Theatre, by Broken Records

Live at Bedlam Theatre

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Endeity my first-ever broken records song was the toad sessions recording of wolves. it was many years before i rediscovered it, along with the rest of until the earth begins to part, and the entire album has remained close to my heart ever since. it's extremely exciting to have new recordings of some of my favorite songs, and extremely comforting in these rough times. thank you so much, i cannot possibly express how meaningful this release is to me Favorite track: Wolves.

Tom Great gig from a band who were obvs on the up and on the top of their game.
Favorite track: Lovers' Pacts.

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1.	Nearly Home 05:59	buy track
2.	And They All Fell Into The Sea 04:37	buy track
3.	Until The Earth Begins To Part 03:50	buy track
4.	Out On The Water 03:42	buy track
5.	Lovers' Pacts 05:52	buy track
6.	Wolves 03:27	buy track
7.	Ghosts 04:17	buy track
8.	If The News Makes You Sad, Don't Watch It 05:00	buy track
9.	Thoughts On A Picture (In A Paper, January 2009) 04:11	buy track
10.	A Promise 05:28	buy track
11.	Lessons Never Learnt 03:33	buy track
12.	A Warning 02:15	buy track
13.	If Eilert Loevborg Wrote A Song, It Would Sound Like This 04:11	buy track
14.	A Good Reason 05:50	buy track
15.	Slow Parade 06:12	buy track
16.	"Not An Encore" (aka A Darkness Rises Up) 04:01	buy track

about

January 2009 was spent recording our debut album 'Until The Earth Begins To Part' at Monnow Valley Studios, Monmouth, and released on 4AD at the start of June that same year.

In between, we put on an intimate 90 capacity home-town show with our pals Woodenbox at the Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh at the end of March. We'd be kidding ourselves if we said we were road-testing the new album - these songs had already had many, many live outings over the previous two years! But it was a chance to showcase the final work, and have a party with the friends, family and fans who'd helped us along the way.

Fortunately, our live sound engineer Simon Kasprowicz captured the whole thing for posterity, resulting in this here live album. Our pals Matthew and Kate at Song, By Toad also filmed the show, and you can still find videos for most of the set along with an interview over at the SBT Vimeo page here: vimeo.com/4993547

The live album features every song on the debut album, including the never more appropriate 'If The News Makes You Sad...', plus some very rarely performed b-sides and a couple of tracks from the companion Out On The Water EP that came out towards the end of that year.

If you've been a properly long-term fan, then most excitingly this live album also features the first ever formal release of our 'lost song', Lovers' Pacts! It was a mainstay of our set between 2007-2009, and we'd tried to record a studio version of it a few times, including at Monnow Valley. But the studio takes never seemed to quite capture the raw chaos of the live version, so sadly it didn't make the final cut for Until The Earth... . If you've been waiting 13 years to FINALLY have a recording of this song, then thanks for your patience!

The whole set is rounded off with the very first performance of A Darkness Rises Up - the first record not even out yet and here's us already laying the groundwork for the second! (It's the only track from the show that's already been released on our B-Sides, Live, Rarities album, which funnily enough is also available here on Bandcamp. You should probably pick up that one too while you're here...)

The song came together out of nowhere in the practice room a couple of days before the show, but we didn't have any plans to play it in the set. We were heavy into our 'no encore' phase, and still are if we can at all help it, but everyone was in such a good mood by the end of the show we threw caution to the wind and gave it a bash un-rehearsed. Apart from obviously not having any proper lyrics yet and the later very sensible decision to ditch the glockenspoil, it's surprisingly close to the final studio version we recorded in 2010!

"So, here it is..." - the live record of Until The Earth Begins To Part we should probably have released last summer for the album's 10th birthday, but didn't get our arses into gear in time. If you weren't there now's your chance to enjoy it fresh. If you were there we hope it brings back some happy memories of the times when we took going out to see live shows for granted.

Thanks again for all your support!
BR x

credits

released June 5, 2020

All songs written and performed by Broken Records

Recorded at the Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh, 28/03/2009
Live Sound, Recording and Mixing by Simon Kasprowicz

Lighting: Colin McCallum
Video: Song, By Toad (Matthew Young & Kathrin Hamilton)
Photo: Ryan Dunn
Thanks also to Woodenbox, Graeme Smillie and DF Concerts, Grant Dickson & Barry Saint, Nic Rue, Murray Chalmers PR, and Roger Trust & all at 4AD.

Jamie Sutherland: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, Piano, Ukulele
Rory Sutherland: Violin, Accordion, Bass Guitar
Andy Keeney: Drums
David Fothergill: Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar,
Dave Smith: Piano, Organ, Trumpet
Ian Turnbull: Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Piano, Organ, Glockenspoil
Arne Kolb: 'Cello

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Edinburgh band Broken Records released their 4th studio album, 'What We Might Know' in 2018. The 2nd release on their own on their own J Sharp label, and following on from two previous albums on the legendary 4AD label. They've now expanded their J Sharp label to include releases of solo projects by band members, including Jamie Sutherland, digitalanalogue and electro pulse magnetique. ... more

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