Hello. As you may know, we recently completed our second annual tour of Germany with our amazing friends A Hurricane’s Revenge. I really have to say thank you to everyone that helped us out on the tour. We are really greatful. The people we meet and the friends we are reunited with really make the whole process worthwhile. We had some really cool shows and great experiences, and 1 or 2 more questionable experiences while we were over there. If anyone wants to repair our dodgy equipment for free, get in touch! I’ve uploaded 1 million photos from the trip to the photos page. Check them out here.

But seriously folks, I had an amazing time. It’s a very tiring, draining experience, but to be constantly stimulated by new environments and to be able to play your songs to completely different people every night is great. Sincere thanks go to Johannes, Tom, Flo, Martin, Somaeh and her sisters. Without you, the trip would have been impossible. We have more European dates planned this year with our friends Beasts. We’ll be travelling to Belgium for 5 dates with them in August. Exciting.

Our split 7 inch is available to purchase in our online store right now. A free high quality download is provided with every purchase. It looks and sounds great, make our day and pick one up. For north-east folks, the record is currently available in Beatdown Records, Newcastle and will soon be available in Hot Rats, Sunderland. We also have new shirts available, as I mentioned below. They’re now available online too.

Last year we met some really cool people called Shields Up. Next week we are heading to Scotland with them and Joey Terrifying to play 3 dates. These are the first Scottish dates we will have ever played and we are really looking forward to it. We’ll be in Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Full listings are on the gigs page, as usual. Hope to see you there!

Hi everyone. We’re here in Germany. A few shows in and things are going very well… so well infact, that we’ve only had to call the AA once, and have only broken one guitar head! That’s the Broken Few curse for you. Anyway, despite these minor set backs we have had a good time so far. Its great to see our friends, A Hurricane’s Revenge. Here’s a few out of focus photos that Chris took.

I’m really looking forward to the next couple shows. We had some great times at those venues last year. We’re playing with some cool German Bands this year. Tom Mess played with us last night in Freiburg. It was cool to see him again.

We got to see our finished 7 inch records. They look awesome. A lot better than I expected actually. We’ll be bringing some back to England with us. Here’s a snap I got of ‘em. I’ll try to blog more when I get time, and put some of my photos up. Wish us luck folks. Once more, into the abyss.

Hi guys, we’re off to Germany today, but I have just enough time to release an image of our new shirts, designed by Drew Millward! They are fantastic, Little Michael (Evil Band Merch) has done an amazing job printing them. We are very happy. Full tour dates are up on the gigs page. The first date is Stuttgart. We are playing a secret show on 27th. I’m assured its going to be amazing, but even I don’t know where it is yet. Oh well. Hope to see you there!

When we return from Germany we’ll have our split 7 inchs. Follow us on twitter – @brokenfew for updates on the road.

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Hi friends. How is it going? We’ve had a great time over the past few weeks playing some gigs with some absolutely top notch bands. Bridge and Tunnel, Young Livers, Bangers, Glass Avalanche, Misery Addict, Offshore Radio, Down & Outs, and Jimmy the Mags to name but a few. Its really been a great start to the year.

Today, we offer you an audio/visual masterpiece. This is a video shot almost entirely by David Jones and edited by yours truly. Last August we toured Germany, and to celebrate our return and the release of our split 7 inch this month, we have thrown this nice little montage/live video together.

As I just mentioned, we are heading back to Germany in 2 weeks time. Its pretty ridiculous how fast this has crept up on us. We’ll be in Germany from 25th May – 5th June. Finalised dates are on the gigs page now!

In other news, our split 7 inch with our amazing friends A Hurricane’s Revenge is now pressed and awaiting collection in Germany. We are so excited about this. It is our first official release, and I would like to take a second to thank everyone who helped us out with the project. The songs were recorded in September 2009, mixed and mastered by Mike Randle, cover art was hand painted by Sarah Fellows, Tim from Dingleberry Records helped release it, and it would not have been possible without the continued support of Johannes, Martin, Tom and Flo.

Here is a stream of the record. You will be able to order it by hitting the Merch link at the top of the page, soon, but we will not be able to fill any orders until we return from tour (second week in June). Every physical record comes with a free digital download code, so you can get high quality mp3s for your iShite. You can buy the record download only by clicking here.

We’ve been playing shows for almost exactly 1 year now, and I can’t tell you how amazing it has been. Thanks to everyone who’s helped us out so far. We really appreciate it.

Hi fools. What a fun weekend we had. Friday consisted of sitting around all day worrying about the van which was still in a state of abject disrepair. I got a text from Greg around noon saying it was finally fixed, and we then set about waiting to be told we could pick her up. We finally managed to get loaded and away from the Sunderland by 6pm. Despite our lateness, Harrogate was fantastic. Thanks so much to Ozzy for sorting that out. Those shows never disappoint.

After the show we drove to Leeds to stay with Dave and spent the night naming hair cuts. “Nesquif”, “The French Baker”, “Rusty Spoon”, “Jumanji”, “Silent Scream”, “Five Head”, “Borstal”, “The Grey Lady”, and “Harvest Wheat”. See if you can guess who those belong to. Most of Satuday was spent on an excursion to Stoke on Trent. We finally arrived back in Leeds to play a fun show, and then set off to Juvinile Hall. I was slaughtered. I ended up doing the worm and losing my phone in the process. Jonny found it. Legend.

Next show is going to be 100% amazing. Its with Young Livers, Bridge and Tunnel and Pure Graft at the White Room, April 25th. Matinee show. Be there early, shit heads.