Bromheads Jacket - Dits From The Commuter Belt

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4...according to our Brian on Sun 12 Nov, 2006.

Another buzz band to reach their debut album rather than being shot by the NME S.S. are Sheffield's Burger King/shopping mall punks BROMHEADS JACKET. 'Dits from the Commuter Belt' ranks alongside Arctic Monkey's debut as one of those bright & energetic collections that actually makes the UK music industry a bearable place to be. I think it's the frantic, raucous nature of the tunes, a tightly wound whirlwind of socially aware & wide eyed indierawk with "lyrics the common man can identify with" Well, that's me quoting a mate. I'm a complete alien so I don't identify with nish but I'll watch this 3 piece explode into the mainstream (regardless of them seemingly keeping their indie cred tight to their chests for now) because at least they aren't just re-hashing the lazily obvious & have a healthy lungful of bloody gusto & some frankly superb songs to boot. A triumph for contemporary northern indie rock for sure. (Honestly, Little Man Tate don't stand a chance against this...) CD & Ltd vinyl to follow

Bromheads Jacket

The three piece Tim, Jono and Dan cite such contemporary influences as Squeeze, Nightingales, Jon Mclure, Killing Joke and early Bowie.

You might mistakenly think their name was cribbed from Michael Caine’s Zulu, but alas:

Back in ‘Nam, early 66, our platoon was hit by a mortar attack which injured several men. One of those men was Billy Bromhead. Billy had been given his jacket by his father who was given it by his father. It had been passed down through generation to generation and Billy had to get the jacket to his son. We swore an oath that we would take his Jacket with us to the far corners of the earth until we could pass it on to the next generation.

Indeed it does, and it won’t take much longer than thirty seconds into the What Ifs and Maybes to that comedy and surrealist observation contribute much of Bromheads’ message.

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