Exclusive: Listen: Harry George Johns - Post Breakdown Blues

Heartbreak isn’t the most unusual subject matter for the songwriter, but ex-Dinosaur Pile-Up-bassist Harry George Johns has literally poured his personal low point into his new mini album, ‘Post Breakdown Blues’, which is released next week.

“Over the course of one single week in December 2011, I lost my girl, my house, my job and pretty much my mind. I was sat in The Well in Leeds with a bag of clothes and my skateboard trying to figure out not what went wrong, but simply where I was going to sleep that night.

Drinking and drugs and all that stuff had taken over during the run-up to me losing everything. I knew I had to finally go talk to the doctors and therapists people had spent months urging me to see.

If there was anything that was going to help me pull through what looked to be the most heartbroken, poorest new year so far it was a handful of friends that let me sleep on their sofas, eat their toast and play their guitars.

It was my time spent with hometown-friend Matthew Wright in his humble home studio that we created ‘Post-Breakdown Blues’. This record is just some of the soundtrack to my breakdown, my loneliness, introspection and just trying to get fixed.’

You can listen to the new record below:



Catch Harry George Johns on tour on the following dates:

FEBRUARY
05 London, Slaughtered Lamb

MARCH
07 Wakefield, The Hop
09 Norwich, Olives
15 Leeds, Sela Bar
23 Coventry, Inspire

APRIL
06 Carlisle, The Royal Scot
13 Lincoln, Cafe Aroma
20 Edinburgh, Hendersons @ St Johns

Harry George Johns will release ‘Post Breakdown Blues’ digitally on the 12th February, via his Bandcamp.