2 She'll Break Your Heart
And She'll Break Your Heart Again...
SHE’LL BREAK YOUR HEART
AA Side Single- Boobytrap Singles Club, May 2001
“LOVE”- The Track And Field Organisation, March 2004
“LIVE AT THE BBC”- Precious Recordings Of London, September 2025
“SHE’LL BREAK YOUR HEART…AGAIN”
AA Side Single- Fortuna POP!, 2006
“TECHNICOLOUR”- Fortuna POP!, 2007
“TRUE LOVE- THE MOST OF THE LOVES”- Daytrip Records, March 2024
A sort of Velvet Underground exercise of a song. The sound of their first album with a title that was a take on “She’ll Make You Cry” from “Squeeze” which, at the time I wrote it, I hadn’t heard, only read about in “The Velvet Underground Companion” book. Eventually I’d hear dribs and drabs of “Squeeze” via Napster/Limewire before getting a copy in the record shop that used to be underneath Bristol bus station in about 2004.
The lyrics are written to myself but in the third person…I think? It’s about me but I’m singing it as if singing it to someone else. (The same thing happens in “DECEMBER BOY” (45) even though Jenna sings it) It’s mostly about the girl from the second verse of “LITTLE GIRL BLUES” (1), C*******, who I’d see every Saturday night in Metro’s but would never speak to. One week her feet appeared in the patch of the dancefloor I was staring at and she said, “Next week, say hello” and then left. I said “Hello” the next week but very little else.
This was demo’d alongside “COOL”(9) and “WHEN MY BABY COMES” (12) in mid-2000, at Immtech in Cardiff with the same students who Marc and I made the first demo with. This time though we had the band.
We’d met Liz (keyboards) and Pnosni (guitar) from going out to the many and unvaried indie club nights of Cardiff. Through Pnosni, we met George (drums) (and a future Loves bassist in TV’s Danielle Ward, his then-housemate) and had our first rehearsal in January 2000. Unlike the Paris Sound, I wanted to play live quickly and, after a strange afternoon show at Immtech the week before, we played our first live show at Jumpin’ Jacks on Mill Lane in Cardiff on Tuesday the 21st of March. I based the poster on a Velvet Underground flyer.
My main memory of the show was laughing every time someone took a photo of me and having a great time. At the end of the show Marc, the bassist attempted to smash a Telecaster copy he bought for £15 in Cash Generator but it was built like a tank so in the end we had to lean it on the steps to the stage and launch ourselves at it.
Later on in 2002, we’d have a DJ residency in Jumpin’ Jacks where we’d play whatever we wanted to no-one. Apart from one week where a scary looking man arrived and demanded we play Lynyrd Skynyrd. James had a 12” single of “Freebird” and “Sweet Home Alabama” and we played each around 5 times that night.
Jumpin’ Jacks is now a 90s theme bar.
Like the Boobytrap single version of “LITTLE GIRL BLUES”(1), this was re-recorded with Richard Jackson (along with “I’M GONNA GET FUCKED UP”(17)) at the end of mine and Becky’s time on the New Deal For Musicians at Immtech) John Pulman, my New Deal advisor became our manager after this and his band, Pink Assassin, recorded a song with the Velvet Underground’s John Cale for the film “Beautiful Mistake”. I said that we should’ve been included and had him play viola on it. The arrogance of youth. And still now.
I sent a tape copy of the 3 song Richard Jackson recordings to Adam Walton on Radio Wales and he played “SHE’LL BREAK YOUR HEART” over and over. We then voted multiple times in the Top 50 Welsh Tunes Of 2000 where we eventually came second. Only bested by “Mwng” by Super Furry Animals.
“SHE’LL BREAK YOUR HEART…AGAIN” came about after the first album “LOVE” was released because Andy, a friend of George, got in contact to say that he’d done a remix of the original and would I be interested in singing on it? I said “Yes” as I didn’t think anyone would ever remix anything we did. He added samples from “Summer Lovin’” from “Grease” as well as the drums from “Roller Girl” by Anna Karina (written by Serge Gainsbourg) and sleigh bells and wanted me to sing “At Christmas” at the end to make it more seasonal. I didn’t do that, but he did allow me to include it on the “TECHNICOLOUR” album when that came out. My thinking was, if Primal Scream can put remixes of songs from the previous album on their current album, then I could too.
