Brighton's answer to Velvet Revolver, but without the cowboy boots and hairspray, Brakes are Tom and Alex White (Electric Soft Parade), Eamon (British Sea Power) and Marc Beatty (Tenderfoot). They are ace and so is their press release...

Brakes are like totally hot scenester hipster friendsters who like totally meet up to discuss punkin new hair moves, denim pocket designs and awesome postcodes. These guys are so totally bomb they'll make you shit out of your ass. They are so totally pimpin, so whatever dude, so go fuck yourself they could be zeitguests on the forum of rad. Buff? Uh! Touch yourself. This band is sick.

Releases

• Beatific Visions - single, out 20/08/2007 on Rough Trade. 1 review (read/post)
• Cease and Desist - single, out 26/02/2007 on Rough Trade. (post review)
• Hold Me In The River - single, out 04/12/2006 on Rough Trade. 1 review (read/post)
• The Beatific Visions - album, out 06/11/2006 on Rough Trade. 1 review (read/post)
• All Night Disco Party - single, out 13/06/2005 on Rough Trade. 1 review (read/post)
• I Can't Stand To Stand Beside You - single, out 20/09/2004 on Tugboat Records. 1 review (read/post)

Past events

• Wed 25 Jun at London Bush Hall. (post review)
• Sat 13 Oct at Bath Moles. (post review)
• Tue 09 Oct at Coventry University of Warwick. (post review)
• Sun 07 Oct at Newcastle upon Tyne Northumbria University. (post review)
• Sat 06 Oct at Manchester Club Academy (Cellar). (post review)
• Fri 05 Oct at Derby Victoria Inn. (post review)
• Thu 04 Oct at Sheffield Fuzz Club (Sheffield Uni). (post review)
• Wed 03 Oct at Aberdeen Moshulu. (post review)
• Tue 02 Oct at Glasgow Oran Mor. (post review)
• Mon 01 Oct at Hull The Asylum at Hull University. (post review)
• Really London, Sat 29 Sep at London 93 Feet East. (post review)
• Tue 25 Sep at London UCL Union. (post review)
• Glastonbury - Saturday, Sat 23 Jun at Glastonbury Festival. (post review)
• Fri 27 Apr at London Islington Academy. (post review)
• Insomniacs Ball, Thu 05 Apr at London SeOne. (post review)
• Wed 07 Mar at Paris La Maroquinerie. (post review)
• Sun 04 Mar at Norwich Arts Centre. (post review)
• Thu 01 Mar at Nottingham The Rescue Rooms. (post review)
• Xfm Birthday All-Dayer, Sat 27 Jan at London Camden Barfly. (post review)
• Mon 11 Dec at London Metro. (post review)
• Fri 08 Dec at Brighton Pavilion Theatre. (post review)
• Tue 05 Dec at London Kings College London (KCLSU). (post review)
• Mon 04 Dec at Birmingham Academy. (post review)
• Sat 02 Dec at Leeds Cockpit. (post review)
• Fri 01 Dec at Glasgow King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. (post review)
• Thu 30 Nov at Belfast Queens University Students Union (inc. SpeakEasy club). (post review)
• Wed 29 Nov at Dublin Crawdaddy. (post review)
• Tue 28 Nov at Cardiff The Point. (post review)
• Thu 09 Nov at London Camden At Proud/Proud Gallery. (post review)
• Mon 24 Jul at Watford Taylors Cafe Bar. (post review)
• Truck Nine - Day 1 (Saturday), Sat 22 Jul at Steventon Hill Farm. (post review)
• Tue 25 Apr at London Astoria 2 formerly Mean Fiddler. (post review)
• Sun 26 Feb at Norwich UEA. (post review)
• Fri 27 May at London Electrowerkz. 1 review (read/post)

News

• 04/06/2008: Tindersticks to headline End of the Road festival
• 06/08/2007: Brake stuff: tour and more
• 20/07/2007: Truck festival: leave the car at home
• 06/07/2007: End Of The Road update: Ryan Adams announced!
• 10/05/2007: WIN! Tickets to the End Of The Road Festival
• 04/04/2007: Insomniacs Ballsed: all-nighter cancelled
• 07/02/2007: The Weekly DiScussion: where now for experimental music following the demise of Radio 3's Mixing It
• 10/01/2007: Brakes: new single, tour dates
• 04/10/2006: Brakes to release second album next month
• 26/07/2006: WIN! Electric Gardens VIP passes

Features

• 28/09/2007: Truck 2007: the DiS review
• 27/09/2007: End Of The Road 2007: the DiS review
• 10/09/2007: Cease To Resist: Eamon Hamilton on why Brakes are the main event
• 05/03/2007: Lunch Brakes: Eamon Hamilton's post-tour / Preparing For Armageddon menu...
• 21/12/2006: DiS's interviews of 2006: DiScoveries, heavy-hitters and silly Some Questions
• 07/12/2006: A Month In Records: November 2006
• 24/11/2006: The Devil's in the Detail: DiS meets Brakes' Eamon Hamilton

Links

• The Brakes - Official Site

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