Broke House
Stories transmitted through the ether on whammy bar and spring reverb
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Name
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Broke House
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Genre(s)
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Indie, Rock, Folk, Country
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Content
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Originals Only
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Taking Bookings
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Australia Wide
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About Us
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Broke House is the latest collaboration between songwriters Luke Costelloe and Ron Francois.
Costelloe was raised on a diet of ‘00s indie rock music, whereas Francois was active in England's post-punk and neo-psychedelic scenes before joining the Eurogliders and moving to Australia in the '80s. They met in 2008 when Francois caught Costelloe's first band at a live show on the Central Coast of Australia. After years of inactivity, in 2017 Costelloe began penning songs again at home in his remote riverside town on the outskirts of Sydney. After reconnecting with Francois the two committed to a regular day-a-week recording schedule at Francois’ Point Studio. Broke House is the culmination of an almost year long creative and productive period in which the pair wrote, recorded, mixed and mastered an album together. Francois' production tries to find and deliver Costelloe’s unique voice over sparse arrangements based on Costelloe's haunting and chiming guitar figures. In classic songwriting duo style they finish each others sentences and spark each others imagination to greater heights. The album chronicles a strange year in Costelloe’s life. Described variously in songs of longing, disappointment, disaffection and estrangement. Longing for the streets he grew up on with his brothers; disappointed he can't talk to close loved ones; adrift in a lonely relationship; confessions of pure animal desire; clashes with insincerity. These and other stories appear as apparitions, transmitted through the ether on whammy bar and spring reverb. They are held in containment with metronomic bass, kick and snare, while resonant keyboards tune in as mediums, vibrating with the melancholy. Each piece is slowly focused into life, dipped in lacquer and fixed in space. Debut single 'The Sound of the Streets' arrived like a gust of sonic warmth scoring them single of the week in Beat Magazine and a feature in Music Feeds. Followed by a string of shows between Sydney and Newcastle over the past 5 months the band has quickly built a reputation as a flawless live act. Off the back of their performance at Secret Garden Festival Broke House launched the video for their second focus track, Extra Indigo. Pile Rats spotlighted the track, describing it as "emotionally charged" and the duo as "two of Sydney's finest songwriters." Moved by the song's content RUSSH Magazine picked out Extra Indigo to include in their series on heartbreak. Beat Mag again named the track one of its singles of the week, calling it "beautifully sophisticated" and "deftly wrought". Since October 2018 Brin Hinchcliffe (ex-Cabins) has joined the duo as drummer for live shows. |
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What We Bring
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We bring a unique and almost cinematic take to soft indie rock music to a festival. We play sophisticated mid-tempo grooves. Emotionally charged and expertly delivered, our tunes tug on hearts strings and glue audiences eyes and ears to us on stage.
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Members
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Luke Costelloe (Vocals, Guitar)
Ron Francois (Bass, Vocals) Brin Hinchcliffe (Drums) |
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Country
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Australia
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State / Region
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New South Wales
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Home town
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Sydney
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" "Sydney-based duo Broke House craft songs to break your heart in the most beautiful way." (more...) - Victoria Pearson, Russh |
" "... their debut, self-titled album last year, spotlighted this really emotive and melancholy brand of soft indie that you would perhaps expect from bands including The National ..." (more...) - Pile Rats |
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" "Warm, sensory rock music that bares the tint of a pained heart even before you’ve heard its tale of romantic decay." (more...) - Augustus Wellby, Beat |
" "Contrary to what their name would suggest, Sydney duo Broke House create music that is undeniably rich." (more...) - Music Feeds |