Violent Soho - Bombs Over Broadway

Up and coming band Violent Soho from the Brisbane suburb of Mansfield playing Bombs Over Broadway live. The band formed in 2004. They are a four-piece band, with Luke Boerdam on guitar/vocals, James Tidswell on guitar/vocals, Luke Henery on bass and Michael Richards on drums. The band members all went to school together in the Brisbane suburb of Mansfield and maintain a close connection to their roots there. Some of their T-shirts in later years have the postcode of the suburb included in the artwork. Their debut EP was released in 2006 and received widespread acclaim. Blunt Magazine gave it 8/10, saying "Sounding like The Vines fed on raw meat and produced on a fraction of the budget, Violent Soho are a boisterous pop rock combo from Brissyland reviving the spirit of the grunge era." Following the release of their debut EP, the band continued to play shows in and around Brisbane, and several shows in Sydney and Melbourne and elsewhere on the east coast. Notably, they toured with The Grates in 2007 They were also part of the lineup for the 2008 St Jerome's Laneway Festival, playing in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Violent Soho have seen airplay on Brisbane radio station 4ZZZ, and nationally on Triple J Violent Soho toured with Faker and Grafton Primary in May 2008, playing songs from their first full length album We Don't Belong Here, which was released on the 7th of June 2008 on the Emergency Music label. Following the release they have toured all around Australia, played shows London, New York and Los Angeles in November 2008 before returning home to play some more shows and Summer festivals, such as Homebake, The Meredith Music Festival, Falls Festival and Southbound Festival. On 20 February 2009, Violent Soho announced on their MySpace page that they had signed an "overwhelmingly exciting" deal with Ecstatic Peace! Records, a record company headed by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, a hero of the band. They also signaled their intention to spend much of 2009 touring Australia, touring and recording in the US, and mentioned that a new album that "elaborated" on the material recorded for We Don't Belong Here was due for worldwide release in the third quarter of 2009

Added 21 Sept 2026