Kilamanjaro presents... I HEART HIROSHIMA with very special guests THE LOTTERY WINNERS and DEPTFO...

Kilamanjaro presents... I HEART HIROSHIMA with very special guests THE LOTTERY WINNERS and DEPTFORD LIGHTS

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Kilamanjaro presents... I HEART HIROSHIMA with very special guests THE LOTTERY WINNERS and DEPTFORD LIGHTS



From Brisbane, the home of The Saints & The Go-Betweens comes 3 piece – I HEART HIROSHIMA. Susie, Matt & Cameron… where it’s at… shared vocals and a microphone. Bottles and cans, just clap your hands. Connecting the wires. Making the right incisions.

I Heart Hiroshima emerged in the party of back streets, to carve a trail through the bark – Matt (guitar/voice), Susie (drums/voice) & Cameron (guitar/voice/art) – and offer the spirit of many (Sleater Kinney, TV On The Radio, Leonard Cohen, The Walkmen, Slumber Party, The Pharcyde...). 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, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah… tours with Ratatat, The Rogers Sisters, The Grates, Peaches & Herms… and a debut Big Day Out 2007 performance on the Gold Coast plus appearances at various festivals including Brisbane’s Valley Fiesta have all fashioned them into a winding thread of rock beat craze!

Tuff Teef , the debut album, was recorded in Sydney at Megaphon and Velvet Sounds by Jonboyrock and mastered in New York by Alan Douches. In the second half of 2008 the LP was serviced to US college radio and received high rotation on 33 stations. The single ‘Punks’ scored “record of the week” on BBC1, NME Radio, Q Sounds and a win on the BBC6 Rebel Playlist taking 81% of the vote over The Wombats. In the meantime work has commenced on songs for the second album. Since then they have received support requests from Tricky, The Streets, and Conor Oberst to play shows with them in Australia –with Conor Oberst & friends taking a great liking to them on the dates they did together… continuing to singe hearts as they start recording album #2 in Feb 2009.

“…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!” iTunes single of the week – August 1 2007

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