The Breakers / Night After Night CD ***PRE-ORDER***
The Breakers 'Night After Night' CD
Preorder shipping from April 17
CD pressing of 300 units
The Breakers are a long-lost late '70s/early 80s Australian power pop band. Formed under in '79 under the long distance guidance of infamous LA producer/Svengali Kim Fowley (Runaways, Hollywood Stars etc, and a man with writing credits for Kiss, Alice Cooper and many more) they only released one single in their lifetime but recorded enough high quality demos for an album, which, as presented here, reveals a hitherto untold story significant in terms of both Australian rock history and the lore of international power pop might-have-beens....
The Breakers formed around the talents of two individuals who had crossed paths with Fowley when he was in Australia over Xmas '78. It's a testimony to Fowley's eye for talent that he was able to meet musicians from opposite ends of the Australian music scene - one the songwriter/bass/player heartthrob for a Sydney-based '50s/60s revival combo who had previously scored a #1 album and a handful of Top 10 hits, the other a songwriting guitarist from two of Melbourne's most notorious (and subsequently highly collectable) punk bands - and recognize a shared pop sensibility. In Jimmy Manzie from Ol' 55 and Jarryl Wirth from Babeez and News (Fowley also recorded Wirth solo under the name Lonely Boys for Bomp!), Fowley found two unexpected allies who together would work out a modern style of modern power pop not too dissimilar to that forged by another Australian band with Fowley connections, The Innocents, whose classic 45 "Sooner or Later" was produced by Manzie and is indeed rumoured to feature The Breakers playing most instruments!
Night After Night: Long Lost '79-80 Recordings By Kim Fowley's Hard Rocking Sydney Power Pop Proteges brings together fourteen of the The Breakers' best tracks, all studio recordings bar great live recordings of the News classic 'Sweet Dancer Au-Go-Go' and a great and otherwise unrecorded original called "Can You Hear Me Singing On The Radio". Included is the track "‘The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes" which the band appeared performing on stage in a Sydney pub in the cult Australian film Puberty Blues, and superior demo versions of the two tracks featured on their sole single, "When I'm On TV" and "Lipstick And Leather", the latter being a Manzie-Fowley co-write rumoured to have later been demoed by Kiss!
Pretty much everything on here could be a hit single, and over the fourteen tracks you'll hear echoes of not only The Innocents but the likes of Cheap Trick, The Cars, The Rubinoos, The Records, The Quick and even later bands like Candy and Redd Kross!
The CD includes an additional 10 tracks including the later and more polished single recordings of "When I'm On TV" and "Lipstick and Leather", fantastic high energy live covers of the Monkees, Beatles, Easybeats and, revealing their superb taste in truly sublime '60s pop, live versions of Cat Stevens' 1967 baroque gem "Matthew & Sons" and Herman's Hermits' Graham Gouldman-composed masterpiece "No Milk Today". As a special treat for Innocents fans, the CD also includes a demo of "Night After Night" featuring Greg Cracknell on lead vocals!
For Fans Of:
The Innocents, Cheap Trick, The Cars, Candy, The Rubinoos, The Records, Redd Kross, The Quick, Runaways, Venus & The Razorblades, Hilly Michaels, Ramones, Kiss, Ol' 55, Babeez/News
Tracklisting:
1. Night After Night
2. Where Is The Sun
3. When I'm On TV (Demo version)
4. Boy Meets Girl
5. She's A Sensation
6. Let's Go
7. The Girl With Stars In Her Eyes
8. They Know I Smoke
9. Who'll Be Her Fool Tonight
10. Sixteen's My Lucky Number
11. Come With Me
12. Lipstick and Leather (Demo version)
13. Singing On The Radio
14. Sweet Dancer Au Go Go
15. Modern World
16. I'm Not Your Stepping Stone
17. No Milk Today
18. I'll Make You Happy
19. I Saw Her Standing There
20. Matthew & Son
21. I'm A Believer
22. Night After Night (Demo version)
23. When I'm On TV (Powderworks 7” single version)
24. Lipstick and Leather (Powderworks 7” single version)