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Don Broco are a British
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band formed in
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, England, in 2008. The band consists of Rob Damiani (lead vocals), Simon Delaney (guitar), Tom Doyle (bass and programming) and Matt Donnelly (drums, lead and backing vocals). The band have released four studio albums, including '' Priorities'' (2012), '' Automatic'' (2015) and ''
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'' (2018). Their most recent album '' Amazing Things'' (2021) was their first to reach No.1 in the
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.


History


Formation (2008–2010)

The band's origins go back to before their university years during secondary school, attending
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, where they played their first gigs, but it was not until after studying at
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that they decided to become a band. The band initially took on many different names, including "Summer fall" and "Club Sex". One of the group's ideas was "Don Loco", which was changed to Don Broco following guitarist Simon Delaney breaking his wrist in a football accident. They first toured England in November 2008, playing gigs in places such as Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester, Swindon, Watford and County Durham amongst others. They appeared at Camden Crawl and
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in 2009, as well as supporting
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on a short run of shows in May 2009. Don Broco also played
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, at Victoria Park in
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, UK, in both 2009 and 2010. They played
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festival 2010 on the
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Bedroom Jam stage. The band then went on to support
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at both their Christmas parties at Hatfield Forum in December 2010. In September 2010 Don Broco also played in a local festival called
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Summer Festival.


''Big Fat Smile'' (2011)

In January 2011, they released the video to "Beautiful Morning", directed by Lawrence Hardy. The following month they released "Beautiful Morning" as a single. They released their EP ''Big Fat Smile'' on 14 February 2011. It was produced and engineered by Matt O'Grady and mixed by John Mitchell. Don Broco, alongside
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and Veara, supported We Are The Ocean on tour in April/May 2011. The band completed a third UK headline tour in May 2011 with support from Burn The Fleet. This run of shows included a show at the Alternative Escape Festival in Brighton, with
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and at Hub Festival in Liverpool, as well as performances at
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North and South. Over the summer 2011, Don Broco played a number of UK Festivals including
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,
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,
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, Liverpool Sound City,
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, The Great Escape Festival. and at the
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on the BBC Introducing stage which they were put forward for by the BBC Introducing programme which covers the Bedford area where the band is originally from. An accompanying video to the band's B-Side "We Are On Holiday" off their "Dreamboy" single was released in August 2011. The single was made available to download on
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on 22 August 2011.


''Priorities'' and Rayner and Playford's departure (2012–2013)

Don Broco supported
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on their UK tour in January and February 2012. During this time, before the release of the debut album, Darren Playford and Luke Rayner left the band due to commitment issues and different interests, however they are still on good terms. The band played Hit the Deck festival in Bristol and
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, the Great Escape Festival in
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, Slam Dunk festivals in
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,
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and
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, and Redfest 2012. Don Broco were going to support
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in April 2012, but their tour was postponed to July 2012. On 23 March 2012, the band announced that they had signed a deal with Search and Destroy Records, a new venture between Raw Power Management and
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. The band's first single "Priorities" from their debut album of the same name was released on 20 May, with the album released on 13 August. The band replaced original bassist with new bassist Tom Doyle. In April, the band supported
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in Dublin and Belfast on their Irish leg of their UK tour. The band replaced the support bill originally consisting of
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,
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and
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, however the Irish leg was rescheduled after Josh Francheschi contracted
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. The band supported
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on their April/May UK tour, alongside
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. The band released the second single from ''Priorities'', titled "Actors" it was released on the same day as Don Broco's debut album, 13 August 2012. The video sees the boys performing and a storyline where the boys don't get on and putting all the chemistry between them on for the cameras. On 20 September, "Hold On" was revealed to be the third single from the album and shortly after they supported Lower Than Atlantis along with The Dangerous Summer and Gnarwolves in Autumn 2012, followed by their first European tour, supporting Young Guns accompanied with
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on their European leg in October 2012. It was announced that Don Broco will be the final support on the Rock Sound Riot Tour 2012 in November 2012 along with
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and Awolnation. In February 2013, they embarked on their first headline tour of the United Kingdom with dates spanning from February to April. For the February to March dates they brought
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and Hey Vanity along as support. On 3 February it was announced that all dates for the February leg of the tour had sold out. For the April dates Pure Love and Decade were the supporting acts. On 30 March 2013 Don Broco performed a headlining set at the Radstock Festival,
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, at the
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. On the weekend of 23–25 August 2013, Don Broco performed on the main stage at the
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. The band concluded 2013 by releasing their new song "You Wanna Know" as a standalone single which also came as a bundled EP featuring various remixed versions of the song.


''Automatic'' and signing to SharpTone Records (2014–2016)

Don Broco stated that the majority of 2014 would be focused around writing material for a new album and that they will headline a tour after its release. It was announced that the band will be supporting British band
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during their UK headline tour during March and April 2014, along with support act
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. In late August 2014 Don Broco were announced to headline 2015's
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tour in February, when they toured the UK with support from
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band We Are the In Crowd and
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bands
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and Beartooth. On 23 November 2014, the first single from the new album, titled "Money Power Fame", premiered on
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's "Rock Show" programme. A second single, "Fire", was streamed online on 26 January 2015. On 7 April 2015, the band released the third song off the new album titled "What You Do to Me", followed by music videos for the tracks "Automatic" and "Superlove" respectively. '' Automatic'' was released on 7 August 2015. It is available in standard and deluxe versions; the deluxe version includes the standard ten tracks as well as four bonus tracks, two of these being previously released songs "Money Power Fame" and "You Wanna Know". In April 2016, they supported
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on the European leg of their tour and also supported 5 Seconds of Summer between 15 April 2016 and 8 June 2016 on their
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. On 24 June 2016, the band officially signed with
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, a label co-founded by Shawn Keith and
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CEO Markus Staiger.


''Technology'' and "Action" (2017–2019)

Don Broco released the single "Everybody" on 16 July 2016 along with an accompanying music video. On 21 October 2016, SharpTone Records uploaded Don Broco's 2013 music video for "You Wanna Know" on their YouTube channel. It was also announced that Don Broco will rerelease ''Automatic'' in the United States on 11 November 2016 through SharpTone Records. The label uploaded the videos for "Money Power Fame", "Superlove", and "Automatic" to their YouTube channel prior to the release. Don Broco released five singles for their third album ''
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'': "Pretty", "Technology", "Stay Ignorant", "T-Shirt Song" and "Come Out to LA". The band went on to play to a sold-out crowd at London's
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in November, 2017, their biggest show to date. ''Technology'' was released on 2 February 2018 via SharpTone Records. In October to November 2016, Don Broco appeared as a support act for rock-metal band
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on their UK tour, playing arenas such as
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. In 2018, Don Broco was one of the support bands for
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's North American and European tours. They also toured with
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of
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in support of his album ''
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''. The band were nominated for 'Best British Live Act' at the 2019 Kerrang! Awards. On 6 September 2019, Don Broco released the standalone single "Action". Two versions of this single were released, one solely featuring Don Broco vocalists Rob Damiani and Matt Donnelly while the second features
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( Beartooth),
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( Issues), Taka Moriuchi (
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) and
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(
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). The music video for "Action" won the award for Best Music Video by Heavy Music Awards.


''Amazing Things'' (2020–present)

Don Broco began writing new material for their fourth studio album in early 2020, and began recording in December 2020. They released a series of studio updates via YouTube before the release of the first single "Manchester Super Reds No.1 Fan" on
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’s Future Sounds, and its accompanying music video on 13 May 2021. Announcement of the album '' Amazing Things'' came the following day, along with a UK tour that took place in October–November 2021. The second single "Gumshield" was released on 8 July 2021, with a music video involving boxer Dave Allen. The band headlined
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, in
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and Hatfield in September 2021, and also released a small set of warm-up gigs to precede the festival. The album was released on streaming platforms on 22 October 2021, initially reaching No. 91 on the UK Album Charts. The physical release had to be delayed due to a global vinyl shortage until 28 Jan 2022. During the build up to the physical release of the album, Don Broco did a run of intimate gigs at small venues in the UK to push physical sales of Amazing Things, the album then went on to claim the band's first UK No.1 album the week following its release. On 21 March 2022 the band played the Iconic Royal Albert Hall in London in support of Teenage Cancer Trust, this performance featured a live orchestra and Choir, something the band had only previously done with the Orchestral studio version of the single 'One True Prince'. In April 2022, Don Broco released the single "Fingernails" on the 25th of the month to help promote their 2023 UK Arena Tour that was announced on the same day, with Papa Roach and Dance Gavin Dance in support.


Musical style

Primarily categorised as
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, the band's style has also been described as
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and
post-hardcore Post-hardcore is a punk rock music genre that maintains the aggression and intensity of hardcore punk but emphasizes a greater degree of creative expression. It was initially inspired by post-punk and noise rock. Like post-punk, the term has been ...
by reviewers; AltSounds reviewed their debut album ''Priorities'' to have elements of all three genres. AlreadyHeard expressed that the album was mostly alternative rock, yet praised the album's range of different moods, going from energetic to "cheeky" songs. A live review from ''
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'' reviewed the band's performance at the
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in 2013 and proclaimed that the changes in the band's musical style compared to their earlier music from the likes of the ''Living the Dream'' and ''Thug Workout'' EPs were substantial. They claimed that due to this some members of their audience were unsatisfied and that the new material was dulled by a slower tempo and a "love-letter" lyrical style. ''RocksFreaks.Net'' expressed the ''Thug Workout'' EP to be a half mixture of
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and post-hardcore due to the mixture of half-rap verses and screams and related their sound to that of
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. The reviews for the third EP ''Big Fat Smile'' primarily called it a general
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album with elements of rock pop. ''
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'' called the album a "good mix of Brit-rock riffs, sarcastic lyrical content and jovial pop sensibilities". with ''Alter the Press!'' also backing this statement up, placing them with the likes of many other "British rock hopefuls for 2011". Their second album ''Automatic'' saw the band change to a poppier sound with "funk and new wave elements". Third album ''Technology'' saw yet another change with a "far rockier sound", but still with some synth elements. Reviews of their fourth album ''Amazing Things'' show a change to a mix of nu metal, rap metal and post-hardcore, more similar to earlier EPs.


Members

Current * Rob Damiani – lead vocals (2008–present) * Simon Delaney – guitar (2008–present) * Matt Donnelly – drums, lead and backing vocals (2008–present) * Tom Doyle – bass guitar, programming (2012–present) Touring * Adam Marc – keyboards, backing vocals, electronics (2014–present) Former * Luke Rayner – bass guitar (2008–2011) * Darren Playford – percussion, backing vocals (2008–2011)


Discography


Studio albums


Extended plays


Singles


Music videos


References


External links

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Don Broco's BBC Page

Don Broco on YouTube
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