the last scheduled appearance of the Steve Abel Band this year…

Here’s how they billed it…

Heartbreaker Alert!

THIS FRIDAY 30th NOVEMBER
at the DOG'S BOLLIX
Kick off at 9 PM SHARP
$15

The Broken Heartbreakers Album Release Show

Graham Reid said…
With a sound which draws equally on the Left Banke, the Everly Brothers, Brian Wilson, Beatles and alt.country harmonies, and the Anglofolk tradition this Auckland group can hardly fail.
In songwriter John Guy Howell they also have someone with a genuine gift, and the arrangements here -- minimal guitars, a lovely drone quality in Angels, mellotron and mandolin -- are utterly seductive.
Mike Irwin from Dunedin described them thus, and it is perfect: "It's country music for the bus downtown, spiritual music for top-shelf believers, psychedelic music for those on a come down".
It is also intelligent, heartfelt, aching and entrancing.
Wonderful album.

With gracious support from:

The Steve Abel Band
“Arrant musical hypnosis” – William Dart
Described by the New Zealand Herald as a "kiwi supergroup," with a potent alternative and pop pedigree. Members draw their lineage from the likes of Bressa Creeting Cake and the Brunettes though to the quirky synth pop of Goodshirt and present day incarnations Pluto and Goldenhorse. Abel's influence, with his elegiac ballads and rolling 6/8 rhythms, defines this rich collaboration as completely unique.
Check out more info on Steve and crew at www.abelsong.com

Simon Comber
Simon Comber has long been a favourite of the Broken Heartbreakers and we're once again grateful to be playing with this dangerously talented songwriter. He's got pedals and he knows how to use em.
Check out more info at http://www.myspace.com/simoncomber

For those of you with baby sitters and time keepers in your midst, the running order will be:
9.20 Simon Comber
10.02 The Steve Abel Band
10.40 The Broken Heartbreakers
With a closing number to end all closing numbers....
The Broken Heartbreakers
we love you

http://www.abelsong.com/
http://www.myspace.com/steveabelband