I Heart Hiroshima

LABEL: Valve Records

From Brisbane... birthplace of The Saints & The Go-Betweens comes three piece - I HEART HIROSHIMA. Susie (drums/voice), Matt (guitar/voice), & Cameron (guitar/voice/art)... where it's at... shared vocals and a microphone. Bottles and cans, just clap your hands. Connecting the wires. Making the right incisions. Joining the plots. Caressing shadows of the flickering lights. Plunging into the light off the side of the road. City streets declare a musical lineage converging in the guitar's angular striations, like bastard urchins and youthful inventions touched by tender aggressions.

I Heart Hiroshima emerged in the party of back streets, to carve a trail through the bark and offer the spirit of many... Sleater Kinney, TV on the Radio, Leonard Cohen, The Smiths, Raveonettes, Magnetic Fields, Frank Black, Jesus and Mary Chain, Walkmen, Slumber Party, Phaycyde... Putting their heads down in earnest circa mid-05, and performing with (and sometimes earning the praise of) Deerhoof, Broken Social Scene, Calvin Johnson, Erase Errata, Macromantics, Regurgitator, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah... tours with Ratatat, The Rogers Sisters, The Grates, Sekiden, Spod, The Mess Hall, Peaches & Herms... and a debut Big Day Out 2007 performance on the Gold Coast plus appearances at various festivals including Brisbane's Valley Fiesta... and runner-up to Wolf & Cub on the 2007 SOYA awards.

Two EPs on Valve - 3 Letter Word for Candy (featuring London in Love), and then Cut in Colour (recorded with Magoo)... have all fashioned them into a winding thread of rock beat craze!

 Tuff Teef - twelve tracks that make rules. The debut album recorded in Sydney at Megaphon and Velvet Sounds by Jonboyrock and mastered in New York by Alan Douches. Featuring single Punks.

 iTunes single of the week - August 1 2007

"...aggressively life-affirming. Completely bass-free... takes the earliest ragged, jangly sounds of the Go-Betweens and marries it with the more clipped, start-and-stop sound of early Sleater Kinney. Good Stuff!"

Got it bad... got it good... they then set off on tour across Australia in late 2007 with Regurgitator and New Pants (from China) plus performances at Sounds in the Ground in Sydney, Round & Round in Brisbane, after which Susie headed over to Japan in December/January for a creative sabbatical.

Prior to this Susie played drums for Robert Forster's two nights of Velvet Underground homage at the Warhol exhibition launch at GoMA. Tuff Teef was voted best debut album for 2007 by Brisbane's Courier Mail and London in Love was included on an Xmas Artrocker sampler in the UK.

2008 kicked off with a sold out show at the Gallery of Modern Art as part of the Warhol Uplate series in hometown Brisbane. This was followed by performances in Feb/Mar at the Adelaide Fringe Festival with The Presets; Laneway Festival, Playground Weekender, and a guest spot with Cat Power... along with a variety of headline shows. In April they played with Ratatat at the Kings Arms, Auckland... immediately followed by an Australian tour with Rocket Science. In June they toured Australia with guests An Horse before returning to NZ to play shows in Auckland with The Mint Chicks and a Wellington headline show after great support from RadioActive. In late 2008 they were asked to do the Conor Oberst Australian tour - who took a great liking to them on the dates they did together and has offered them a US tour in 2009.

The second half of 2008 Tuff Teef was serviced to college radio in the US and went on to receive high rotation on 33 stations there. The album was released by Valve in the UK via distributor Weatherbox, with excellent reception in print media - 4/5 in NME, Kerrang, Artrocker - and on radio - Punks received "record of the week" on BBC1, NME Radio, Q Sounds and taking 81% of the BBC6 Rebel Playlist vote over The Wombats - and will be followed by debut UK shows early 2009. In the meantime work has commenced on tracking songs for the second album which will be mixed in either Nebraska, Sweden or London.

Since then they have appeared at the 2009 BIG DAY OUT, Sunset Sounds festival, the 2009 La Boite theatre program launch plus received support requests from Tricky, The Streets to play shows in Brisbane... continuing to singe hearts as they start recording album #2 in Feb 2009.

All breaking chairs and stealing hearts.

The album TUFF TEEF and EPs PUNKS, CUT IN COLOUR and THREE LETTER WORD FOR CANDY are available on Valve through MGM Distribution and on iTUNES worldwide. PUNKS and TUFF TEEF are also out in the UK on Valve Records through WEATHERBOX.

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