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A Broken Robot

About Me

Hello. We are from Southend-on-Sea in Essex near London. We write music and play shows for us and others. We hope you like it. We make independent popular music because of bands like The Clash, The Smiths (and a whole bunch of other bands that matter) and would love to come and dance with you. We just had the best time in the world on tour with Dave House and Lemuria, we met so many people that reminded us why exactly playing music is rad!

We've been lucky enough to have shared the stage with a number of great bands including Tellison, Tanaou, The Xcerts, I Was A Cub Scout, Data Select Party, The Wonder Years, Lemuria, Dartz, Example, The Maple State, Dave House, The Riverclub, Furthest Drive Home, Sam Isaac, Luke Leighfield, Encyclopedia, Gavin Osbourne and The Attika State.

everybody. everybody. close your eyes, we're nearly home.

CONTACT:
[email protected]
http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Broken-Robot/33485085456

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 09/10/2005
Band Members: Jamie Dobson
Jonathan Moore
Ben White
Neil Emery

Influences: elvis costello and the attractions. modest mouse. brand new. the smiths. the clash. at the drive in. minus the bear. the hold steady. black flag. trojan records. the specials.

Sounds Like: This band is of new wave jangly poppy indie music that fits in with the UK pop-pun scene. Saying the have played with artists like Tellison, Dartz, Luke Leighfield and The Maple State should gives you a pretty good idea of their appeal. The band is only a four-piece but cowbells, keyboards, and even a trumpet make an appearance on here. They hark back to the vocal styles of Brand New on 'Hey You, Space Ranger', and list influences from The Clash to Weezer. These four tracks are brilliantly put together, equal parts sing along and dance along, and even clap along on 'All Here'. Barely a year and a half old, these guys are going to get big of their predecessors are anything to go by. - DEMO OF THE MONTH - BIG CHEESE MAGAZINE

SHOP
T-Shirt:

A Broken Robot-Alabama-Record Player T-shirt
Available in YL-S-M-L
CD:

A Broken Robot - Towns, Cities and Cities and Towns
Track Listing:
1.This City Scares Me
2.All Here
3.Kneecaps
Released through SmallTown Records

Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Old Reviews and Stuff

This 4 track single kicks off with the guitar indie of"Elliot", a choppy and optimistic piece with some nice guitar work."Hey You Space Ranger" is better; if it was less choppy it would bereminiscent ...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:42:00 GMT

August Tour 08 with Portman and Atwood

The first show was in Stamford, its pretty good there, there are more churches than houses. The venue was called The Toreador and we liked it because they gave us 5 free drinks each, so we chose Koppe...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:59:00 GMT

April Tour Part Two.

Hello.About a week ago we came home from an awesome 6 days of shows, we met loads of nice people and played with loads of great bands. For three days we played shows with a band  called Portman w...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:32:00 GMT

April Tour - Part One

And so we join our heroes on an adventure to Northampton.The long and short of what happened last weekend was that we discovered that in fact our Northampton date was not in Northampton, rather 45 min...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:13:00 GMT

recordingrecordingrecording

Today we finished mixing our first record.   We are very happy with it.   It will be pressed on 7" Vinyl. Probably limited to 200 with some special artwork or something nice. We're most like...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:59:00 GMT

studiostudiostudio

we entered the studio on tuesday this week with james may in tow as our resident pep talker and cigarette roller.   recording is fun but hard, we have everything recorded except vocals and percus...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:59:00 GMT