"Like most bands Those Made Broken came about through circumstance rather than by design.

Singer Murray and guitarist Scott met while studying on a music course at a college in Glasgow, bonding soon after over a shared love of artists ranging from Soundgarden to Tori Amos; a friendship which would eventually flourish into a musical and songwriting partnership, sowing the seeds for what was to come...

Their first gig together saw a battered old acoustic guitar, borrowed from friends, thrown into a black plastic rubbish bag serving as a makeshift case, before heading to the venue, albeit via a quick visit to an Indian restaurant. Humble, if not exactly conventional, beginnings! That gig was performed under the moniker 'Djamolidine Abdoujaparov' - in homage to the professional cyclist and Tour De France Green Jersey winner from Uzbekistan, famous for his reckless sprinting throughout the 1990's. Many more gigs, under a new name - Flatbackfour - followed, culminating in the release of 'Dark Songs', a 5 track EP, featuring friend & ex-Deacon Blue and Pearlfishers drummer Jim Gash. Flatbackfour carried on for several years, with numerous line-up changes, as the band's songs and sound gradually moved towards the harder side of rock with the grunge and metal influences coming more to the fore.

After recruiting Andy McFarlane, a local bass player with a pop punk background, and drummer Alistair McMenemy - a long-time friend who performed alongside Murray many years previously in Dirt, a Glasgow-based metal band which had gained some traction and local notoriety on the Scottish music scene before disbanding - the line up was seemingly complete.

While spending time between shows during a short run of gigs in Germany, the band members deliberated a new name for the band to properly represent the recent changes in line up and musical direction, which was now distinctly harder edged and alternative. After a plethora of options were discussed and rejected over pilsner and schnapps, the four finally agreed on Those Made Broken - a perfect summation of the joy of celebrating the imperfections of the world and life itself.

Shortly thereafter, and with more gigs under their belts, work began on debut album Dead History - an album steeped in angst and fury at the fallen world it finds itself in, with rampant capitalism and global economics fuelling and funding wars no one outside the ruling classes needed or wanted. Upon release in December 2014, Dead History was a statement that TMB had arrived - and they had a lot to say both musically and lyrically. 

While the album was well received, what should have served as a springboard to greater things instead led to stagnation, and a prolonged hiatus which ultimately led to the mutually agreed departure of Al and Andy, with love and gratitude extended to all. 

Those Made Broken 2.0 rose, standing on the shoulders of what had gone before it. With the recruitment of bassist Paul Robertson, another Dirt veteran, and ex-Vega member Martin John 'Hutch' Hutchison on drums, the line-up was again complete. 

The post-Covid release of single 'Fatman' - in December 2021 - served to usher in this new era for the band, Focus now turned to writing and demoing tracks for the follow-up to Dead History, while also reconnecting with live audiences up & down the country, attempting to build a reputation on the way. First single Monsters arrived in April 2024, with follow-up Little Keeper Of Light being released in December of the same year. More shows followed in 2025, with work continuing to build towards the release of their sophomore album with the release of third single Simpleman, in early 2026. With an emphasis on punchy choruses and striking riffs, this new set of songs display an immediacy and dynamism which is in contrast to the more measured approach taken on Dead History.

 In the summer of 2026, new album, A Door You Can Never Close, will be unleashed. Expect the classic TMB sound, the mixture of the melodic and delicate with the brutal and visceral, and of course expect songs which tackle the issues we have today - internal struggles...frustrated political angst...and a raging desire to be heard."