TBP @ LJ [dot] com

the repost

2005-06-21T15:23:56Z

well.. the day has come sorry to post this banner yet again but...
COME ROCK OUT WITH US AT OUR FIRST SHOW IN MINNESOTA IN SIX MONTHS!!!

go here and see us live tonight at the rock in maplewood!!! get directions from the website (trusty mapquest)

also check us out at myspace (http://www.myspace.com/thebrokenpromise/

thank you all

<3

tj

chad

pj

tbprock @ 2005-06-01T19:41:00

2005-06-01T23:41:48Z

COME ROCK OUT WITH US AT OUR FIRST SHOW IN MINNESOTA IN SIX MONTHS!!!

Click the above banner to check out our temporary site, and stay tuned for changes coming up over the next few months!

RANDOM UPDATE

2005-05-12T19:16:49Z

this was taken from the new news posted on the broken promise dot com :
posted by chad

Hello everyone, it's been a long time since an update! I put together this little temporary site which we'll be using for a while.

Things are starting to progress here in Boston, and I've been working on a few new songs for a new album. I'm hoping one of them will make it on to the new demos we're going to be recording next month on my next trip back to Minneapolis.

We're currently trying to get a show lined up in the Twin Cities sometime between June 18th and the 24th. If anyone can help with this we would be super grateful to you!

We have some other plans which will start to take effect in 2006, so stay tuned for announcements on that as the time draws closer.

so we actually will be updating and beginning again, keep checking the broken promise dot com for more info!

<3 timothy

tbprock @ 2005-01-25T17:25:00

2005-01-25T23:26:00Z

the broken promise rock

you all rule

<3

-tj

AS POSTED ON THEBROKENPROMISE.COM

2004-11-04T07:17:35Z

Alright, I'm sure everyone's been wondering what's going on lately since there's really been no news from TBP camp. First off, I hope all eligible voters turned out on election day, even though it saddens me to see another four years of Dubya in office. Referring back to a post from our tour journal...Ohio...dead. (Sorry guys from HQ!)

And now on to the important news. I'm sure a lot of people know by now, but for those of you who don't - I have moved from Minneapolis and am now living in Boston. That's right, I have moved halfway around the country, while P.J. and TJ are still in Minneapolis. What does this mean for TBP? Well...we HAVE NOT BROKEN UP.

TJ is planning a move to Boston in the summer of 2005, at which time him and I will continue to play music. We both hope P.J. will be joining us as well, although we don't have a 100% on that yet. I have only been gone for about a month now, but I really miss playing with those guys. I can only hope summer comes quickly, and in turn brings the guys to New England (trust me, you guys would love it here!)

During our downtime I'm hoping to write a lot of new material, so we'll be able to hit the ground running and get back into doing what we love. I'm also hoping to do more design work for I Ate Her Records, be sure to support Tony and the label, and all of IAHR's bands.

So, that is the latest info from the East Coast. Keep checking back to the site or sign up for the email list to get all of the latest info. Also, feel free to use the comment section below the post, I'd love to keep in touch with everyone!

Take care, and I'll speak to you all again soon!

<3 Chad

tbprock @ 2004-10-11T21:22:00

2004-10-12T04:27:19Z

Wow, I know I said I'd update...but I again forgot the password!

Yes, as TJ mentioned, I am moving to Boston, MA tonight. TJ is driving out with me and then flying back to good old Minneapolis. I'm going to miss Minneapolis, but at the same time I can't wait to experience living in Boston. The band will still go on, we will just be taking time off for now while TJ finishes school and moves to Boston with me next June/July.

As TJ mentioned in the previous post, there are lots of great memories so far. He did fail to mention the 1000 degree fire with Accepting Silence, Bosio, and of course The Broken Promise. "Damn that fire is hot...why didn't anybody tell me that fire was so hot, bitch!?!"

So stay tuned for the return of TBP, we can't wait to start playing for all of you again.

Thank you all for your support over the last 4 years, and for the support for the future! =0)

Take care everyone,

<3
Chad
chad@thebrokenpromise.com

farewell young prince...

2004-10-11T00:53:47Z

well everyone, i am posting to let you know that our fine bassist chad aka apatheticwords is now moving to boston effective MONDAY! i know, its soon, and we haven't updated, but this doesn't mean end for the broken promise... we PROMISE. i want everyone to wish him a safe drive/trip out there tomorrow morning... its going to be sad. chad and i carried his bass equipment up yesterday from my basement for the last time ever... wow, its been four years of practicing down in that basement, starting with the fist ever practice with chad and i, pj absent with tennis, as we covered "all my fault" by fenix tx. its been a long crazy ride, hundreds of shows, two tours, one college dorm room floor, two bean burgers, cicadas, the headline of a cd release that wasn't ours, wrong way down the one way in iowa, dripping beer, the van melt down (st. cloud), killing time in omaha, countless nights waking up at 4am... (3am central time), six bottles of ice house, five fans at cincinatti, four hours stuck in manhattan, three hours in "deliverance" west virginia, two nights in phoenix, and one chad + gatorade bottle in new york! its been a time... a good time... wish chad the best

<3
tj

tbprock @ 2004-07-12T23:36:00

2004-07-13T04:40:01Z

Yay, I remembered our LJ password!!! Wow, we really haven't updated for a long time!

Head over to our website and see the new site if you haven't done that yet - www.thebrokenpromise.com.

Also, if any of you have an account on Myspace, check us out there and add us to your friends list. You know you want to! www.myspace.com/thebrokenpromise.

As always, be sure to check our website for the most updated info - because as we've proven, we can forget the password to this account!

<3
Chad, P.J. and TJ
The Broken Promise

tbprock @ 2004-06-18T17:08:00

2004-06-18T22:12:15Z

We're home from tour!

To everyone we met on the road:

Thank you for coming to our shows, hanging out with us, buying our merch, and letting us crash on your floors - without all of you it wouldn't be possible to have so much fun!

We'll be home now until August, when we'll be hitting the road again for a short little tour of the west coast. Our new website is currently under construction, so be sure to check that out when it's done.

That's about all for now, it's time to clean out the van and take a shower in my own bathroom!

-Chad
The Broken Promise

tbprock @ 2004-06-09T00:50:00

2004-06-09T05:51:34Z

The entire new EP is up at pureVolume!

Go check it out: www.purevolume.com/thebrokenpromise

Comment and let us know what you think!

Also, we're on tour right now (well, home for a couple days at the moment...) so check out our tour site at www.thebrokenpromise.com and come out to a show if you can!

<3 Chad

tbprock @ 2004-05-25T18:31:00

2004-05-25T23:37:14Z

this JUST in... we have confirmed shows in arizona...
JUNE 14th @ chasers in scottsdale, az
JUNE 15th @ jugheads in phoenix, az EDIT:(forgot that the abb. for arizona was az!)

hope we can see you all (that is all of you in phoenix) there
-tj

tbprock @ 2004-05-24T00:09:00

2004-05-24T05:12:25Z

We launched the tour "mini-site" today, so be sure to head over to www.thebrokenpromise.com and check it out. Also, we still need help finding shows for parts of our tour. If you could help in any way, even by setting up a show in your basement for us and some of your friends' bands to play - we would really appreciate it. Check out the Tour page on our website for the dates/states where we need shows (all marked by all TBA's.)

Thank you, and we'll see you soon!

-Chad

tbprock @ 2004-04-22T00:34:00

2004-04-22T06:04:07Z

Wow, it's been a while since this has been updated...so I'll take the liberty of doing so!

We're still working on tour booking, right now the areas we're struggling with the most are CA, TX, and the Northeast coast. If you can help us get a show for any of these dates in ANY CITY in that state, please let us know at booking@thebrokenpromise.com, and we'll be sure to hook you up (especially if you're in a band that can help us get a show...we can get you shows in Minneapolis no problem.)

The dates where we need the most help (bold being most important because of 2 shows in each state):

May 29/June 1/2/3 - Northeast US (PA, NY, NJ, MD, DC area)
June 7/8 - TX
June 9 - OK (none of the clubs in OK seem to respond and none we've been working with seem to have phones or answering machines...)
June 10 - CO
June 12/13 - CA
June 14 - AZ or else OR

In other news we'll be recording a new "limited edition" EP for the tour, which will include 2 current songs, 2 brand new songs, and 2 acoustic songs. It will sell for $3, and will be AVAILABLE on May 25 - right before we leave for tour. We decided not to release the other EP yet, because we've written so many new songs that we want to keep that EP and turn it into a full-length for release later this fall.

New EP:

Tracks:
001. Fragile
002. 52 Cards In A Deck, Minus The Jokers (Like You)
003. This Is How It Can Feel When You're All Alone ***NEW***
004. The "end" In Friend ***NEW***
005. Photograph (Acoustic)
006. April Fool's Day (Acoustic)

Also be on the lookout for a new website coming soon to www.thebrokenpromise.com...I'm currently working on a redesign of the existing site to freshen things up before we hit the road.

Well, that's about it for now, but we'll see you soon.

-Chad
The Broken Promise

tbprock @ 2004-04-06T22:15:00

2004-04-07T03:16:41Z

tbprock @ 2004-03-27T20:14:00

2004-03-28T02:16:26Z

Well, looks like we won't be playing the Roxy when we come to LA...so we'll see what goes down. Also should start seeing stuff this week for confirmations for other dates, so yeah. More updates soon.

-Chad

tbprock @ 2004-03-21T17:30:00

2004-03-21T23:45:48Z

Alright, here's an update with The Roxy...

Thanks to all of you around the Los Angeles area, it looks like we can probably do the show there! There's still the part of getting the tickets on a pre-sale though. If everyone who has commented/emailed comes to the show with some friends, we have close to the 50 tickets we need...which also means free cd's or t-shirts to everyone who pre-orders tickets.

Since it costs $400 to pre-purchase 50 tickets, we've decided to "pre-sell" them through our website. If we really want to do this show (which we do!) we need to purchase 50 tickets by next week, so we're asking everyone who wants to go to buy theirs now. I've set up a secure shopping cart on our site to pre-purchase tickets, where you don't actually have to pay for them yet...instead when we have 50 tickets sold payment will be processed then. We're still collecting all of the billing/shipping information now, so once we have enough tickets we can finalize everything right away and get tickets sent out to you. Also, if you want to order by sending check/cash/money order instead, email roxy.tickets@thebrokenpromise.com or myself, chad@thebrokenpromise.com to make arrangements on that.

With that, to order go to http://roxy.tickets.thebrokenpromise.com. Again, anyone who pre-orders a ticket will get a free cd or t-shirt (maybe even both depending on supply left...) at the show (and yes, we're keeping a list of everyone so you get free stuff - order 2 tickets, get 2 free cd's or shirts, 3 and 3, ect...)

Thank you again to everyone, we can't wait to come play for you.

<3

Chad (and Patrick and Tim)
The Broken Promise

tbprock @ 2004-03-18T18:29:00

2004-03-19T00:45:33Z

To all of our friends from around the Los Angeles area:

WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! We have a chance to play @ The Roxy in West Hollywood on Saturday June 12, however we need a draw of 50 people to get the slot. This is where you come in...

With us being from MN, we would have to pre-purchase all of the tickets (about $400) and sell them ahead of time. Therefore, we've decided that everyone who would be willing to come to the show and buy a ticket, will get a free CD or t-shirt of their choice (maybe even both!) Tickets are $8 each, so you would get a killer rock show, and a CD or shirt (or maybe both!) for only $8!

We would love to play there, and love to see everyone rocking out with us. If you would like to buy a ticket and help us out, please comment or else email me (chad@thebrokenpromise.com) and let me know. You won't have to pay for it yet, but I need to get an idea who would come to the show (also tell all your friends and have them come!)

Thank you all, we <3 you!

- Chad

tbprock @ 2004-03-17T00:37:00

2004-03-17T06:39:10Z

As I mentioned in the last post, we've been working on more and more new songs lately. Check out this clip of one new song as we were writing it today.

_______________________________
Chad - Vocals, Bass
The Broken Promise
www.thebrokenpromise.com
_______________________________

tbprock @ 2004-03-11T23:15:00

2004-03-12T05:19:25Z

Long time with no update. We've been working on a bunch of new songs, which we'll be recording soon and releasing on our next full length. This brings me to an update on our currently planned EP:

We have decided not to release the EP yet. With all of the new song's we're working on, we want to wait and release one great album rather than two discs back to back. So what will become of "The Only Way To Fall Is Down?" Well, instead we're going to release a shorter EP and sell it for less. It's going to be pretty simplistic, and probably 4 or 5 songs on it. We're trying to work out a way where if you buy the EP, you can get the full length for cheaper. All of the details aren't worked out yet, but we'll post an update once we have everything in line.

In other news, we have been added to the FINAL SHOW at Taco Toro's in Inver Grove Heights, MN. We're sad about there being no more concerts there, because it's a fun atmosphere and pretty much the only All Ages venue in the Twin Cities that lets bands play there. Be sure to come to this show and rock TT's one last time.

Also if you live in/near Bemidji, MN, we're playing a benefit festival hosted by Punk-Online.net there in May. There's 30 bands, and currently all day tickets are only $10. Head over to www.punk-online.net for more details.

That's about it for now, take care!

<3 Chad, Patrick, and Tim
The Broken Promise

tbprock @ 2004-02-23T01:58:00

2004-02-23T08:04:09Z

UPDATED TOUR ITINERARY:

May 28, 2004 | CHICAGO, IL
May 29, 2004 | CLEVELAND, OH
May 30, 2004 | PHILADELPHIA, PA
May 31, 2004 | WORCESTER, MA
June 1, 2004 | NEW YORK, NY
June 2, 2004 | SOMEWHERE, NJ
June 3, 2004 | BALTIMORE, MD
June 4, 2004 | CHARLOTTE, NC
June 5, 2004 | TAMPA, FL
June 7, 2004 | HOUSTON, TX
June 8, 2004 | AUSTIN, TX
June 9, 2004 | OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
June 10, 2004 | DENVER, CO
June 11, 2004 | LAS VEGAS, NV
June 12, 2004 | LOS ANGELES, CA
June 13, 2004 | SAN DIEGO, CA
June 14, 2004 | TUCSON, AZ
June 16, 2004 | KANSAS CITY, MO
June 17, 2004 | LINCOLN/OMAHA, NE
June 18, 2004 | SOMEWHERE, IA
June 19, 2004 | SOMEWHERE, WI
June 20, 2004 | MINNEAPOLIS, MN

Press kits are going out this week, so we'll post venues/cities once everything is confirmed. Also be sure and head over to http://www.purevolume.com/thebrokenpromise, where we are streaming the entire new CD.

See you soon!

- Chad, PJ, TJ -
The Broken Promise

P.S. There's some new eye candy up from last week's show in Minneapolis, over at http://www.thebrokenpromise.com

tbprock @ 2004-02-18T11:08:00

2004-02-18T17:30:08Z

Head over to http://www.thebrokenpromise.com and stream the entire new album by The Broken Promise, The Only Way To Fall Is Down. Just launch the e-card and check it out!

tbprock @ 2004-02-11T18:38:00

2004-02-12T00:39:23Z

Check out the final versions of April Fool's Day, Fragile, and 52 Cards In A Deck, Minus The Jokers (Like You) from the upcoming CD. Head over to http://www.purevolume.com/thebrokenpromise and check them out now (also tell all of your friends to check out the songs too!)

tbprock @ 2004-02-01T19:31:00

2004-02-02T01:31:58Z

While working on some new songs, we shot this short clip of 52 Cards In A Deck, Minus The Jokers (Like You) at practice today. Check it out...rock.

Also, head over to purevolume.com and check out a rough mix of April Fools Day, which will be on the new CD.

tbprock @ 2004-02-01T10:02:00

2004-02-01T16:02:48Z

Click here to check out a video message from Chad.

tbprock @ 2004-01-24T03:55:00

2004-01-24T09:59:12Z

Thank you to everyone who's been checking us out, and for all the nice comments. You all rock!

We are currently in the process of redeveloping our street team, and if you'd like to help us out you could get some pretty cool free stuff. If you're interested in helping spread the word about The Broken Promise, head over to http://team.thebrokenpromise.com and sign up for the Street Team. It will oficially begin on Valentine's Day, but start signing up now to make sure you get a slot.

Thank you again everyone, and we'll see you soon.

- Chad, Patrick, and Tim -
The Broken Promise