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The Local Heroes

About Me

Long ago , the world glittered and shone with dreams, and imaginations and ifs and maybes. It was a hopeful place where the air itself sparkled.But all good things come to an end or so they say, and one day just like that the world woke up. Just like that a thousand dreams shattered into a tiny pieces so small that nobody could see them anymore. The air became colourless and a grey dust settled on the world stealing light and hope.All was not lost. the pieces of the dreams remained. Some of the fragments had jagged edges which cut and tore, and some pieces were so fragile it would break your heart to see them. But some were different. Some shone through the greyness and began reassembling themselves in new forms.The world shut it's eyes and slept peacefully once more.Another day Grainne, Rachel and Johnny decided that it would be a good idea to start a band. They have lots of stories, but not one for that.
The Local Heroes have released a split album with Blackberry Wine on Series Two Records called "Museums For Memories". The album is available from the Series Two websiteYou can sign up to receive emails about what we are up to below:

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Member Since: 11/01/2006
Band Website: www.thelocalheroesmusic.com
Band Members: Rachel - In charge of the nagging
Johnny - In charge of the coffee breaks, the chocolate breaks, and the tv breaks
Grainne - In charge of the other yokes, which are like deillys but more Irish
Phil - In charge of being amazing and making us more rock n' roll.
Influences: Musical: Belle and Sebastian, ballboy, Looper, Sunhouse, Billy Bragg, Clayhill, Lloyd Cole, Cinerama, Drugstore, Lorna, Hefner, Simon and Garfunkel, The Go-Betweens, Richard Thompson, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, George Jones, The Mountain Goats, The House of Love, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Coastal.Cinematic: A Local Hero, Amelie, Lost in Translation, Night on Earth, Educating Rita, Brief Encounter, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, A Taste of Honey, Billy Liar, The Family Way, The Graduate, Gregorys Girl, Career Girls, Breakfast at Tiffanys.Literary: Douglas Coupland, Charles Bukowski, Roddy Doyle, J.D. Salinger, Shelagh Delaney, Stuart David, Kate Atkinson, Anne Tyler, Garisson Keillor, Anne Donavan, Tim Sandlin, W.B. Yeats, Rhold Dahl, Alan Sillitoe.
Geographic: We love the scenes and the sounds of Berlin and Dresden, the hustle, the bustle, the dirt and grime of London, we favour Caledonia for Glasgows West End and Edinburgh's Morningside and Forth Coast, and we would oft be found wandering the back streets of Manchester, Budapest and Galway in search of a song that we know is drifting on the industrial fumes and the city smogs.

Bucolia pulls us towards Cumbria with an endless nagging that refuses to give way; the scottish islands and the west coast of Clare have all left heavy imprints on us in our never ending search for the melodies that drive the sea breezes and the mists of sweet yet infectious pollen.

Easyjet has made the cities and sidelines of Europe our oyster, the songs are out there, running through the rivers and the trees, the hills and the valleys, through the mills, the factories, the canals, mines and most of all, the people - we don't write these songs, they write themselves, we just let you know how they sound.
Record Label: Series 2 and Cloudberry Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Museums For Memories

I just thought I'd let you know that Series Two Records have released a Local Heroes/Blackberry Wine split CD. It is called "Museums For Memories" and contains 8 songs. It looks a bit like this: The ...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:34:00 GMT

The Look-Back Time

Hello,I'm very excited to say I've just finished making my first solo mini album. It is called The Look-Back Time and has 7 songs on it. It is a homemade CDr costing £3.50 and available here:http://ww...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:15:00 GMT

Free CDs

We have decided to give away a CDr of some of our songs to anyone who wants them. It will be called "The Years We Lost, And The Days We Found" and it will have 4 songs on it. We are only making 50 cop...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:36:00 GMT

The Local Heroes and press interest...we think

Well, the press are finally starting to chatter, and here is the first fruits of our labours... The Local Heroes: Demo recordings (autoprodotto) Lo so, sono dischi come questo che alimentano i pregiu...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:16:00 GMT

A badly worn name

Alison Broomhall wore her Christian name badly. It clashed unbecomingly with everything she was. "Alison". It was like a badly fitted dress, or a faded ripped t shirt. It just wasn't her she often tho...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:07:00 GMT

The land of the broken instruments

One day we'll just leave everything behind and get on a train that will take us a million miles from here. We'll travel past mountains, and seas, and people and places to a land where all burned out s...
Posted by on Thu, 25 May 2006 00:22:00 GMT

The white car, the same as ours.

The white car the same as ours has been following us for two days now. We first saw it outside tescos when we had stopped to get pineapple for our friday pizza. When we came out of the shop the c...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 01:01:00 GMT

the bread fell from the sky

It was foggy the day that the bread fell from the sky. We had our hoods up and our damp breath soaked our scarves and chilled our neck. I saw it fall out of the corner of my eye and looked at yo...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:25:00 GMT

stuck

she spent all day haunted by a dream that didn't even belong to her. the hands on the clock seemed to be stuck fast, and she picked at the skin around her nails. she was cold, and life had become brok...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:10:00 GMT

A start, a middle and an end.

The night was almost black and the sky was clear. In the distance you could just see a hazey orange glow from the town. They stood in a field with their back to each other under and umb...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jan 2006 02:48:00 GMT