History SmallTown Heroes

There are three artists named Smalltown Heroes:

1. A rock band from the Netherlands.

2. An Indie/Rock band from Sunderland, UK

3. An American alt country-rock band from Indiana

1. A rock band from the Netherlands. They started on april 30th 2012. The band consists of Singer / guitarist Joris Oosterhof, guitarist Sjors Evers drummer Jordy Hoekstra. Although the members of the band are fairly young, they are starting to grow a name in the Netherlands very rapidly.

You can find their Facebook page on: http://www.facebook.com/SmalltownHeroesOfficial

2. An Indie/Rock band from Sunderland, UK. Their main songwriter Baz Warne was born in England in 1964. His first band was The Toy Dolls and later also The Troubleshooters,they played Ramones covers and also wrote their own material of 80's punkrock.

They released their debut single "Moral judgement " in 1995 while supporting Jeff Healey on his British tour and Kerrang voted it the single of the week. The highly rated debut album "Human soup " which the single is taken from came out in 1996 to critical acclaim. This was followed by the album "Atomic Cafe ' " and they also recorded the worlds first cd-rom single called "Moral Judgement ". This received gold awards in the music and Computer press for innovation and originality. The band toured continually for 10 years around Europe gaining cult status in their native North East and playing with bands such as Terrorvision, Little Angels, The Stranglers, Stoppok, Stereophonics, The Levellers, Space and Jeff Healey, to mention but a few.They also worked with top producers Chris Kimsey (The Rolling Stones) Steve Bush/ Marshall Bird (Stereophonics) and Simon Efemey (The Wonderstuff/Wildhearts).

3. An American alt country-rock band from Indiana, made up of Dallas Johnson, Bethany Johnson, and Brian Greene. They have a gritty sound heavily influenced by Steve Earle. They released their only album to date, Lo, the Hard Times in 2008. While not a "christian rock" band as such, their members are Eastern Orthodox and a strong faith underlies many of their songs.

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