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- Andre Camilleri & The Broken Hearts are
the latest addition to Melbourne's Alt Country music scene.
Andre learned his trade singing and drinking in the shadows of
Malta's Red light district around the infamous Streight Street,
deep in the guts of the island state's capital Valletta.
In 2006 after years of drifting aimlessly around then world,
writing tunes "just to keep the devil in his hole", Andre
arrived in Melbourne. Here his luck finally started to
turn when he found a bunch of like minded musicians he had been
searching for so long. They are Chris Birnie on Bass,
James Stewart (T-Bones, Overnight Jones, the Warner Brothers) on
lead guitar, Brendan Mitchell (Dead Livers) on pedal steel and
Mauro Dell Citto (The Rhumbats, April Seven) on drums. Oh
Boy, these guys can play! Andre's song-writing is firmly
rooted in the Blues tradition, voicing the lament of the down
and out, broken hearted and alienated people. Influenced
by the likes of Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams,
Bo Diddley, George Jones, Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, Townes van
Zandt, Roky Erikson and Jay Farrar the Broken Hearts have
created their own uniquely Australian take on 'Good Country'
music. Their first album CD 'One fine Day' and other songs
(released by Ramblin' Man Records, distributed by Sound Vault
Records is receiving ample radio play all across the country.
The Broken Hearts are quickly establishing themselves as one of
Australia's top live music acts.
- And this is what significant others had
to say: Dave Dawson, Beat Magazine: Melbourne's Andre
Camilleri has dipped deep in to the stone country template for
his first album with the broken Hearts...... It's hard to
listen to 'Sad Old Clown' without thinking of Smoky Robinson's
1970 hit, but he didn't have the best Whorehouse in Texas stage
show player Mitchell playing on his tune!" Phil Knipe,
Radio KLFM: "It's the sort of stuff I like to present
- neither super Schmaltz (a la Charlie Landsborough et al)
nor faux contemporary Nashville like so much Australian C&W.
Thanks for the decent music. "Kristy Edmunds, Melbourne
Arts Festival: "and again, I really enjoyed the music."
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- GIG GUIDE:
Sunday, 19 August, Poxx Bar, Malta
Thursday, 6 September, Barbukka Bar, Fitzrooy
Saturday, 8 September, Pint on Punt, St Kilda
Friday 19 October, Spiegeltent, Melbourne Arts Festival
Saturday, 20 October, Spiegeltent, Melbourne Arts Festival
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