Our new cd, BRUISE nobody else
“This album was written and recorded in Currie House, home to Bruise for seven years. The building and what happened to it has influenced us greatly. Watching this home turn from a haven to a nightmare has broken my heart, then mended it again, then…you get the picture.” Isobel - April 2007
It’s a fifties classic. Shabby glory on the Eastern edge of Tower Hamlets. As residents left or were moved out the flats were claimed by organized crime, by squatters and finally by looters. Surrounded by neglect, robbery and drug abuse in a malevolent atmosphere of crushing failure and threat this collection of songs took shape and Bruise recorded a remarkable album. A derelict building is a moody place. Hollow and hopeless. Jagged, glittering and defiant. Doors slam in vacant flats. Rainbows form in the spray of ruptured pipes in sun-filled stairwells. The songs absorbed those moods, light and dark, and now these recordings reflect them.
Come see us at the Spice of Life on Friday 19th October 2007
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