The Heartbreaks, The Yorkshire House, Lancaster

The Heartbreaks, The Yorkshire House, Lancaster

I walked into this venue with the distinct feeling that, on average I was just 'a wee bit older' that the rest of the audience. I'm just glad I had my camera with me!

The venue was in an upstairs room, painted wall-to-wall matt black and freezing cold. It was only later that the gyrating bodies 'warmed up' the atmosphere so much so, that the walls ran with condensation!

But don't this put you off, because this was the best gigs I've seen The Heartbreaks perform so far.

Maybe it was down to being their home-coming gig (the lads are from Morecambe) or the fact that they were in jovial Christmas spirit, but the night was a huge success. So huge that the Lancaster Guardian asked for photos and a review of the night for their New Years Eve publication.
 

Anyway, despite getting trampled in the never ending mosh pit and spending all night protecting my camera from 'stray lager' I got some pretty decent pictures. The only grumble - The dry ice machine made it difficult to manually focus, but I got some really atmospheric pix.

"Article for The Lancaster Guardian"

The Heartbreaks long anticipated return home, was a huge success at last nights gig at the Yorkshire House. Returning for a brief visit to Lancaster, following their recent successful tour supporting ex-Libertine Carl Barât.

They followed fellow Morecambe bands, Bleach and Liar, Liar on stage arriving a very fashionable thirty five minutes late.

Sauntering carefree onto the stage Matthew, Ryan, Deaks and Joseph kicked off the event with some old favourites including ‘Jealous Don’t You Know’ and ‘Hand on Heart’ to the packed out audience.

The Heartbreaks lyrics are classically reminiscent of Morrissey and Marr, singing about relentless weather and broken hearts in Northern towns. ‘Liar, My Dear’ inspired by ‘The Irish wind playing havoc with your fringe and about being a naughty boy!’ says it all.

The Heartbreaks have a certain charm and their snappy memorable songs certainly blew the crowd away. They have had two record releases this year the most recent ‘I Didn’t think It Would Hurt To Think of You’ was released in August.

Described as ‘one of the hottest bands to break through in 2010’ they certainly brought some warmth to a cold dark corner of the north.

A band to certainly watch out for in 2011.

View The Heartbreaks photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amandajwindowuk/sets/72157625699583134/