The ETAs will aim to identify the most gifted new artists in the UK across a variety of disciplines through a combination of popular vote and judged awards. Winners in each of the following eight categories will be awarded a live slot at Gaymers Camden Crawl on either 1st or 2nd May 2010: est New Band, Best New Solo Artist, Best Live Act, Best Song, DIY Award, Best Image & Styling, Innovation Award and People’s Choice Award.

We need as many votes as humanly possible before 15th March to get us to the Camden Crawl. Please click on the banner below & vote for us on the page you’re redirected to, it literally takes a second, nothing but an email address needs to be entered

Exciting times are in store for 2010….to add to the re-release of the remastered 1st EP coming up on 25th Jan 2010, we are currently halfway through the recording of our 2nd EP!

6-tracks are currently expected to be on the 2nd EP as well as a myriad of instrumentals….and so far, it is sounding MASSIVE!!! We can’t wait for you to hear it!!  It’s pencilled in for digital release on 26th April 2010, but if you come to the launch gig at The Joiners on 24th April 2010, you will be able to buy an eye catching CD with all the artwork as we intended it to be…watch this space for some video teasers!!

We’re extremely excited again because in 2010 we will be crossing the shores of the UK over into Germany for a week worth of shows at the start of April!!! We’re looking forward to meeting new fans & seeing the response to our music in Europe!!

We want to play where you want us to! To get us to play your town (UK or Europe) simply use the ‘Demand it!’ widget on this site, our MySpace, or our Facebook page. Get your friends to use the widget too, the more requests we have, the easier it is for us to play your town…

We are watching the requests closely as they come in and we promise that we will play everywhere that is requested as soon as we can.

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Also, we recently had our 1st EP ‘Resisting Movement and the Almost Advisory’ remastered and the new version of the EP’s tracks are now up on our music player!! The new version will be re-released on 25th January 2010 on iTunes, Amazon, and on CD.

Also, in the up coming weeks, we’re to start recording our 2nd EP, we’ll be playing some of the new tracks off this EP live for the first time this month, so get to one of the shows….all we can say is, this next EP is going to be big!

“This is Broken Links biggest show to date. Headlining at The Joiners to an almost packed crowd of devoted fans and friends, they’ve even brought in a fantastic lighting rig especially for the occasion. However, whilst a good light show certainly adds to the occasion, they’ll never make a rubbish band sound good.

Thankfully for Broken Links, the lights serve their purpose fully and go some way to really making this young, new band come across as the awesome talent they so clearly are.

The slightly tinny sound of their demo is soon forgotten as the monstrous riffing, thunderous bass and clattering drums all collide to produce a rhythmic, pulsating sound-clash that gets my pulse racing. The smile on my face soon gets wider and wider. These guys sound immense! Capture this sound on record and they’ll do themselves a HUGE favour.

Lewis Betteridge and Phil Boulter are the bass player and drummer and they make an incredible rhythm section. No doubt, the able talents of Mike Breach working the Joiners mixing desk helps, but frankly, you can’t polish a turd. The sounds emanating from Betteridge’s bass are so huge they almost don’t need the P.A. and many drummers spend their whole lives just trying to get half this good.

Three pieces can often be let down by a lack of style and good choices from the guitar player, but thankfully, front man Mark Lawrence knows how to fill musical space superbly. A good use of choice effects and delays, without ever resorting to swamping the sound for the sake of it shows a sign of maturity too many younger bands lack. Unsigned bands shouldn’t be this professional. If they carry on this malarkey they might be in danger of getting a record deal!

If I had any criticisms to make of the band (and you know I do!), they still lack the killer vocal hooks that turn really good rock music into monster hits. Sure, they don’t have to drop creativity and individualism; they have worked hard to produce a sound, whilst reminiscent of bands like Muse, Therapy? etc, that is entirely their own. Nor do they need to start writing radio-friendly, twee choruses, but whilst I leave the gig blown away by everything else about the band, not one single song sticks in my head. When Broken Links start adding killer vocal lines (the vocalist is clearly capable of singing them) then they could well be unstoppable.

To see and hear what I’m raving about, see the band play live this month at the Joiners on the 23rd and the Soul Cellar on the 26th.”

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Currently you can purchase physical copies of our EP and tickets, which will be delivered to your door!!

Check out the ‘Mirrorman Festival’ tickets!! We’re currently giving a free copy of our 1st EP ‘Resisting Movement and the Almost Advisory’ with each ticket!!!