This Is OI!
Broken Heroes was formed in 1991 by a bunch of skinheads who appreciated some of the more melodic English Oi! Bands of the day. Once formed, they hit the ground running playing many shows in the NJ/NY area and people really seemed to enjoy it. One particular guy who enjoyed it was Armen of The Wretched Ones and Headache Records who approached Broken Heroes and offered to put out a 7"...Jump For Oi! Was born. The 7" was raw and poorly recorded, as most of the releases back then were but it went over really well. Media Blowout 7" came out next and these two 7"s on Headache Records formed the base for Broken Heroes. In 1993, Broken Heroes played right before the big riot at the United Front Unity fest in Washington DC. What a weekend that was but the crowd really responded to Broken Heroes to the point that they had to stop playing due to too many people on the stage! In 1994 they got to play with The Business, one of their main influences, at their first American show. Later that year they did the east coast part of their tour. This set the stage for Broken Heroes to become a major force in NJ Oi! Unfortunatly, that didn't happen. Instead the band slowed down and eventually broke up in the late 90's. 2 years later, Broken Heroes got back together. All amped up and ready to go they released a split CD with Pittsburgh's The Weekend Warriors called Beer Guts and Drunk Sluts. While the recording on this CD was raw, it did fairly well. A few years later Broken Heroes decided to put out their debut full length CD, I Told You Once..the art work changed the name and it ended up being I Told U Once. While the album contained good music, the recording was terrible.the tracking was screwed up and frankly the CD ended up with the word "Streetpunk" on it somehow, something that Broken Heroes hates. Their feeling is that the word Streetpunk is for bands who are too scared to use the proper word "Oi!" because of the skinhead stigma attached to it. I Told U Once was supposed to b...
Broken Heroes   Format: Audio CD
{"Manufacturer": "Skinflint Music", "Date First Available": "May 14, 2013", "Label": "Skinflint Music", "Number of discs": "1"}