THE BREAKERS – NIGHT AFTER NIGHT LP & CD

The Breakers are a long-lost ’79-’80 Australian power pop band and the unlikely meeting of members of chart topping ’50s/60s revivalists Ol’ 55 – songwriter/bassplayer/heart throb Jimmy Manzie (who also produced The Innocents‘ classic “Sooner or Later” single) and drummer Geoff Peterkin –  and infamous early Melbourne punks Babeez and News – guitarist Jarryl Wirth.

Formed under in ’79 under the long distance guidance of infamous LA producer/Svengali Kim Fowley (Runaways, Hollywood Stars etc, and a man with writing credits for Kiss, Alice Cooper and many more) they only released one single in their lifetime but recorded enough high quality demos for an album, which, as presented here, reveals a hitherto untold story significant in terms of both Australian rock history and the lore of international power pop might-have-beens…. 
 
The vinyl edition of Night After Night brings together fourteen of the The Breakers’ best tracks, all studio recordings bar great live recordings of the News classic ‘Sweet Dancer Au-Go-Go’ and a great and otherwise unrecorded original called “Can You Hear Me Singing On The Radio”. Included is the track “‘The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes” which the band appeared performing on stage in a Sydney pub in the cult Australian film Puberty Blues, and superior demo versions of the two tracks featured on their sole single, “When I’m On TV” (which they performed on Countdown) and “Lipstick And Leather”, the latter being a Manzie-Fowley co-write which also featured in Puberty Blues as was later demoed by Kiss! 
 
Pretty much everything on here could be a hit single, and over the fourteen tracks you’ll hear echoes of the likes of The Innocents, Cheap Trick, The Cars, The Rubinoos, The Records, The Quick and even later bands like Candy and Redd Kross!
 
The LP features a four-page full colour 12×12 insert featuring numerous images, press clippings and lengthy liner notes by Grown Up Wrong!‘s Dave Laing, who compiled and annotated last year’s acclaimed I Wanna Be A Teen Again: North American Power Pop of the ’80s 3CD set for Cherry Red. The CD packaging features the same contents converted to a 16-page booklet. 

The CD and digital releases album include an additional TEN tracks including the later and more polished single recordings of “When I’m On TV” and “Lipstick and Leather”, and fantastic high energy live covers of the Monkees, Beatles, Easybeats and, revealing their taste in truly sublime ’60s pop, Cat Stevens’ 1967 baroque gem “Matthew & Sons” and Herman’s Hermits’ Graham Gouldman-composed masterpiece “No Milk Today”. As a special treat for Innocents fans, the CD and digital releases also include a demo of “Night After Night” featuring Greg Cracknell on lead vocals! 

To purchase this and any available Grown Up Wrong! title, Australian customers are directed to Grown Up Wrong! – sound-merch.com.au

UK/Euro customers are directed to https://grownupwrong.bandcamp.com/

US customers are directed to https://midheaven.com/label/grown-up-wrong