Winter-ful greetings Pain-fans, There’s a cold wind a-blowing and a sheet of rain lashing against the windows of Miss Pain HQ - It’s enough to piss on anyone’s parade…
But not us Pains, we plan to end the year with a tremendous B-A-N-G. The B-A-N-G will be come in four stages (detailed below), and post-B-A-N-G we will collapse and spend 2 weeks being drip-fed on a cocktail of alcohol, beechams, and mince pies.
**B-A-N-G** --SAT 24 NOV – BRIGHTON-- L’AMOUR ELECTRONIQUE (DJ sets only) Miss Pain DJs play Synth Pop, French Pop and Electro Pop The Penthouse, above The Freebutt, 1 Phoenix Place, Brighton, BN2 2ND 8pm - 1am entry: FREE
For setlists, mp3 downloads, photos, music and bonus YouTube video delights take a look at our MySpace
Come to one, or some, or all of the above – we promise fun, and fizzy pop noise, and fits and starts, and very possibly a big big **B-A-N-G**.
Other news, in case you’ve been hibernating: Miss Pain have a new CD out – The Carrion Call EP. And our first 2 singles have been re-released on iTunes. Both can be purchased via our online shop, along with a bounty of stocking fillers. Give someone the gift of Pain this Christmas - THE MISS PAIN SHOP
Have a very very Christmas. Love The Miss Pain three xxx
**LIGHTNING FLASH** It’s Monday 8th October, and we are proud mothers and a father because our new CARRION CALL EP fledges the nest today. **FANFARE** You can buy it online right away in our palatial new shop - go forth and flex that plastic muscle.
You can also buy it in the real world: Brighton (from today in Rounder, Resident, and Borderline) London (from Mon 15th Oct in Rough Trade, and Sister Ray)
**INCOMING RADIO TRANSMISSION** Miss Pain will be broadcast across the wires this coming Friday (12th Oct). Tune in to Sean Creed’s Brighton Phlux show, 1pm-2pm on Radio Reverb – 97.2FM (Brighton und Hove) or radioreverb.com (to listen via the interweb). We are ‘record of the week’ every day, and on Friday we have been invited in to perform a short set using only battery-powered equipment.
**BRIGHTON HORROR SHOW**
WED 17 OCT - Halloween Club @ The Engine Room, Preston St, Brighton Get another fix of live Pain action, then see fisherprice Rockstar Kid Carpet, and get yr ears bashed by a full-on Gotho-disco too! myspace.com/haloween_club 9pm-2am / £5/£4 NUS / drinks promos (eg Absinthe £2.50, eeek)
**FRENCH DISKO GOODNESS** Don’t forget L’Amour Electronique every 4th Saturday at The Penthouse, Phoenix Place. Next one is 27th October, 8pm-1am. French Pop, Electronics and Synthetic sounds to tickle yr fancy. And it’s FREE! myspace.com/lamourelectronique for setlists, mp3s and stuff.
**MORE LIVE DATES FOR YR DIARY**
SAT 10 NOV – LONDON – For3ign @ Bar Music Hall, Shoreditch SUN 25 NOV – LONDON – The Windmill, Brixton SAT 01 DEC – SHEFFIELD – Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases @ The Red House FRI 07 DEC – BRIGHTON – In Every Home… A Heartache @ The Cowley Club
And finally, thanx for your whoops and cheers and dancing in Brighton and Cambridge. You gave us a warm feeling in our socks. Keep it Pain-ful The Miss Pain three xxx
Hello Subscribers of Pain. It’s been a while. We’ve been saving up. Deep breath. Go Go Go.
-- PAIN ON THE RADIO THIS SUNDAY (23 SEP) -- We will be guests on Boogaloo Stu’s Cavalcade of Pop this Sunday. Tune in to JUICE 107.2FM (Brighton area), 6pm-8pm. If you don’t live in the Brighton area, fear not, for the show will also be available on t’internet at Totally Radio* from Friday 28 Sep. We will perform 2 songs using only battery-powered equipment, and there will be a Miss Pain competition too. *show will be available for one week.
-- BRIGHTON LIVE (28 SEP) -- And then we begin the marathon BRIGHTON LIVE week. Make sure you keep some reserves of energy for the end of the week. FRI 28 SEP – BRIGHTON LIVE @ The Hope, Queen’s Rd (onstage about 9.50pm) We promise a barrage of pop, noise, drums, synths, feathers, and fun. And it’s FREEEEEEEE! ***Please note the Date Change*** We will NOT be playing anywhere on Thu 27th like it says in the local press.
-- CARRION CALL EP (08 OCT) -- We (finally) have a proper release date for our Carrion Call ep. It will be available to buy on t’internet from the 8th Oct (or sooner, if Dom Pain can get the new online shop finished). You will also be able to get it in all good record shops in Brighton and London. And possibly some other places too… Nylon! Friction! are making it all happen.
-- MORE LIVE ACTION -- Keeping us, and you, busy ‘til almost Christmas!
>>DAY ONE – 30 MAY – LONDON, UK PANIC PANIC PANIC. We are unpacked, unprepared and Coco the Cat knows something is not right. We haven’t been able to play with her all morning. Sarah and David arrive in the van, it seems for once we have rented something better than the standard rust-bucket…
Listening to John Foxx, I set the tone for the tour, sounds like he’s singing “Touching Cloth”. Hit traffic on the M23, Verity is sewing feathers on my stage outfit.
The stage is tiny – about the size of a small double bed. We jam ourselves into place, pink feathers and all. I get a telling off for my bum-notes in Campari & Sex – I swear one of them wasn’t me. We get a tenner for our efforts and conclude that London promoters are generally useless fuckwits. Later, at Laura’s house, Sarah earns the title 'Electro-Womble' as she stops to pick up a piece of metal off the road.
Endoscopy Blues - Live at the Betsey Trotwood, London. 30.05.07 (recorded off a portable TV)
>>DAY TWO – 31 MAY – MARGATE, UK Laura feeds us a hearty breakfast and we are on our way. In Margate we are sent on a hunt to find a key for the only public toilet. You’d think that such a prized facility would at least be kept clean, but no… We visit the Shell Grotto. David is highly sceptical and believes it was built in the 20’s. The Pain’s favourite design is the Cocktail glass. Check out the lido and then walk down to the beach, Sarah slips on some green slime and slides down on her arse for 2 metres. We collect shells to make David his own personal shell grotto.
Sarah admires the Shell Grotto cocktail glass
During soundcheck, a microphone falls and cracks me on the head - a cold, hard pain rushes through me, feeling sick and dizzy, with a pack of ice on the bump. The place is full of 18-year-old girls and boys, they are mighty confused by two girls and synthesizers. Buy they jump up and down like maniacs, and add whooping and hollering backing vocals, and clapping, wherever they can. As soon as they pick up the words they shout along in the choruses. The boys try to put Verity and Sarah off by making obscene gestures [we weren’t scared of some 18-year-old boys though! – Sarah & Verity]. The lighting is terrible; we can’t see a thing we’re playing. WE R PUNK ROCK.
>>DAY THREE – 01 JUNE – MÜLHEIM AN DER RUHR, DE Wake at 5am to get the ferry URRGHHH. They don’t seem phased by the amount of shit we have in the van. Maybe they just want an easy life. We are separated from the truckers and people are confused as Sarah tries to sleep under the table – “Is it a child? What’s it doing?” She looks like the child/thing from Don’t Look Now in her red cardigan and knee socks…
Drive across Belgium and the Netherlands. Approx 16h15 we cross the border into Germany. Verity points out a town called Wankum. This amuses our addled brains.
AZ-Mülheim is a huge communal squat building. We are welcomed like old friends, they feed us heaps of vegan food and free drinks, give us beds and a hot shower. We are overwhelmed by their generosity. Sarah wanders into gender make-over corner, a guy puts strong glue on her upper lip and starts giving her a ‘tache – “It’s a bit wonky… later I will introduce you to the person whose hair it is”. We play to a warehouse full of Gender Terrorists. We love it. And they love it. We come dressed in white and gold with flying feathers. Sarah takes out a Gender Terrorist’s eye with her theremin during the encore. Someone tells us we should enter for Eurovision next year, he will vote for us. We have been awake for 24 hours now. We are drunk, tired, and happy. Miss Pain hearts Mülheim. Einfach Klasse! Wir Sind Der Hammer !!!!
What we learned today: Einfach Klasse!! – First class!! (in a kinda 80's way). Du bist der hammer – You are the hammer (in a kinda rock way we think).
>>DAY FOUR – 02 JUNE – KARLSRUHE, DE We are fed a huge vegan breakfast, the sun is shining, do we really have to leave?
Fun fun fun on the Autobahn… We seem to have lost track of the days. It is Saturday, I think. Still feels like we are on holiday. Sarah’s moustache vanished in her sleep, mine is still here.
Karlsruhe: We are taken to a restaurant and fed good food and more drinks. Then we play in a vast derelict car show-room that has been converted to a temporary venue/gallery space. It will be destroyed in 2 weeks. We don black with yellow arrows and give them a good dose of the Pain, and they still want more. The Police arrive and close the impromptu disco in the office. Our new friends try and drag us on to a club in a slaughterhouse, but it is 4am and we convince Sarah that we must sleep. Back to our Art Nouveau hotel, super-size beds and chandeliers in our rooms.
What we learned today: Super geil... Alter – Roughly translated as super sexy and then some (best said in rather deep voice). Lüster klemme – Electric fuck or old fashioned electricians' term (we are not totally sure which)... Will you be my luster klemme? (needs to be said with a 'Doctor Face'). Danke schön - Thank you. But you must say schön with a a long 'ooooo' sound, not an 'er' sound (as we were told all English people do). We were told we would look much cooler if we said it properly. Though in Berlin, they told us they just say Danke (no schön)!
>>DAY FIVE – 03 JUNE – DAY OFF/DRIVE TO BERLIN 5 hours later, I awake to the sound of church bells. We can’t resist a photo opportunity outside the bathroom…
Our host, Oliver has been up all night, but meets us for breakfast, and we eat like kings and queens. They ask us to sign the illustrious hotel guest book, we check out the other entries from Angie Reed, Bobby Conn, and Quintron & Miss Pussycat. Oliver then takes us to see his studio where he crafts incredible gold jewellery, he shows us a unicorn pendant he has carved from mammoth ivory, standing atop a tiny blue-enamelled gold strawberry (a gift for Bobby Conn’s wife). Beautiful.
We say our goodbyes and set off on the 7+ hour drive to Berlin. We fill up the van just before we hit empty, and discover the wonders of the UriMat - you piss on it and Albert Einstein lights up PING! Later, in the absence of hot water, Sarah tries tea made with sparkling water. The grimace each time she drinks suggests she may not try it again. We drive and drive, passing beautiful settlements and toy towns, mile after mile of forest and vast open farmland. We are wowed by soaring buzzards, and hovering kites, and majestic wind-farms, and every Autobahn mile is fast and smooth. Stopping for coffee and sandwiches: among other things the vending machine in the toilets dispenses something called the ‘Travel Pussy’ – presumably to keep the lonely truckers satisfied on those long lonely journeys.
20h10: The exhaust has reached the volume of a V8 engine, and the floor beneath my feet is getting toasty. Could this be the end of the Pain van? The exhaust has sheered off under the drivers seat and has been dragging along the tarmac. Luckily, like good Pains we have breakdown cover, we phone for assistance and wait. Verity films the dusk and the lights on a nearby wind-farm.
Sarah and David pass their ‘car breakdown in German’ module. The van ist nicht tot. We are back on the road.
23h30: Arrive in Berlin, we phone Brezel, and he drives out to find us, we follow so we can drop the Miss Pain arsenal off chez Stereo Total. They take us for falafel and a beer, then back to sleep in their amazing flat.
What we learned today: Auspuff – exhaust pipe
>>DAY SIX – 04 JUNE – BERLIN, DE They tell us they have no beans for breakfast, and are amused that we drink Earl Grey (“I thought it was an English stereotype”). Brezel is appalled at how long Sarah brews the tea for. Before we woke, he phoned a mechanic and arranged to drop the van off.
The mechanic tells Brezel the van is a heap of shit!! We are dropped at Alexanderplatz and go up the Fernsehturm, to get a glimpse of the city. Next we wander over to find the venue and visit some remaining sections of the wall.
When we return to collect the van, the guy tells us the exhaust is mostly rust and is like a sieve. As we wait for an invoice, Brezel tells us about the dream he had that morning. He dreamt about our performance – Sarah was dressed as a bourgeois lady in her boudoir. She was trying to catch Verity, who was dressed as a spider on the ceiling…
Later we play at a Cowboy Club. Verity smashes a bottle of glitter in her bag, so we all cover ourselves in it. In Berlin, we are told, Monday is like Sunday. Our audience is a small crowd of Berlin faces (Stereo Total, Mignon, Cabine, Miss Le Bomb, Noisy Pig, EchoKrank, Lady Gaby, and a handful of scenesters). Feels like an audition, hard to gauge a reaction, but we play our little socks off anyway. Verity uses Brezel’s leopard-print brothel creepers as a barometer of success – she says they tapped and danced all the way through. At the end we all lay on the stage, as we pack away our equipment, everyone comes and tells us how amazing the show was, and apologizes for the small crowd. A girl tells me she likes my ‘tache: “It is very Freddie”. I make a mental note to trim it to be more Sparks before the next show.
What we learned today: Wir würden sagt 'das war spitze' - phase used by ladies in the 40's: we would say 'that was the spitze (point/sharp)'.
>>DAY SEVEN -- 05 JUNE – FRANKFURT AM MAIN, DE Everyone into the van. Hit the Autobahn, and David requests his Yes double live album. We pretend we can’t find it for a while, but relent as he is driving. We spend about 4 hours spotting our pretend favourite bits. Nobody enjoys the drum solo. We offer to find David some feathers to wear so he can feel more Prog in the driving seat. We ponder what Miss Pain would be like on Yes’s budget. It frightens us. Even scarier – by the last song we’re actually enjoying Yes. We realise that David has just been nurturing the seed that was planted at the end of Endoscopy Blues.
Sarah and Dom, listening to Yes
At the service station they pipe Sting into the toilets – for a more tantric experience. And you can buy an ice-cream called ‘Bum Bum’. Back in the van, we race towards Frankfurt, and make it just in time for a speedy interview on RadioX, then on to the venue. There is a busted piano in the backroom. David scares us with renditions of Pain and Queen songs – like a demonic Les Dawson, with a maniacal grin. The turnout is small – there is a biiiiig show across town. But we play our best-est, and we pass the audition. By the last song we have a big enough crowd to make noise for an encore. We dedicate Buslanecrash to David. As we hit the first chorus it occurs to me that this may be a slightly ill-conceived portent for our journey home…
We meet Frankfurt’s resident electro aficionado, he has seen 3 bands tonight – Coco Rosie, Miss Pain, and another. He says we beat the other 2 hands down. Another small victory for the Pains. We load the van, and drive to a small town outside the city. We cram ourselves into a tiny room with 2 of the biggest cats we have ever seen.
What we learned today: Schnurrhaare - whiskers (literal translation: 'purr-hairs')
>>DAY EIGHT -- 06 JUNE – HOMEWARD BOUND Again, we have only had about 4 hours sleep. Our voices have all dropped about an octave – David is hitting Barry White low notes, Sarah is sounding more like Nico, and I have hit a pleasing Lee Hazlewood register. Verity is mysteriously unaffected. Hit the road, another gloriously sunny day. We have 7 hours to make Ostende. I finally get to listen to Love Is All. I am tired and happy.
13h40: We leave Germany. We vow to return as soon as we can. We have a near death experience trying to get onto the Brussels ring road. By some chilling coincidence Suicide’s ‘Ghost Rider’ comes on as we sit in traffic, trying to calm our shot nerves. Nobody mentions Buslanecrash.
Sitting in the ferry lounge, loading up on nasty cheap coffee, we hear something even more alarming – a car-crash record mixing up Sting and Snow Patrol – we hope we never have to hear it again. First on the ferry, so we commandeer the TV and watch ‘Walk The Line’ and ‘Amadeus’ (David hopes it'll have Falco's 'Rock Me Amadeus' in it - it doesn't. Furthermore, it is shit!), drink more coffee, and try to stay awake.
At passport control, as they check the contents of the van, we try to explain what kind of band we are. They seem convinced and let us back in. The roundabouts are a minor challenge, so we decide to stop for food and have to spend £10 on 2 sandwiches and 2 cups of tea. David puts on the Bonzo’s to keep him awake – “Look out there’s a monster coming…” We arrive back at Miss Pain HQ around 1am and unload. Coco the cat is waiting for us, and makes us play with her for 2 hours before we can empty our heads to sleep. Tomorrow we return to normality.
Miss Pain enjoy a post-tour ice cream
words: Dom / translations: Sarah / video: Verity & Laura Guy / photos: Verity, Sarah & Laura Guy / audio: Feline1
We have a brand new CD – the ‘Carrion Call ep’, and some UK and Germany shows to celebrate. Yay!
The EP will be released on Nylon! Friction! (date TBC), as limited edition (250 copies) vinyl-look CDs in hand-coloured, numbered sleeves. It will cost a mere £5/€7,50. We have advance copies to sell at the gigs, and we will also be selling them through the website when we get back from Germany, if you can’t make it to any of the shows.
SAT 26 MAY - BRIGHTON, UK L’Amour Electronique (DJ sets only) The Penthouse, 1 Phoenix Place, Brighton, BN2 2ND WED 30 MAY – LONDON, UK The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, EC1R 3BL Onstage: 9.45pm THU 31 MAY – MARGATE, UK The Qubar, 3 Kings St, CT9 1DD Onstage: Late-ish, we’re headlining FRI 01 JUN - MÜLHEIM, DE Gender Terror Party @ AZ-Mülheim, Auerstr.51, 45468 Mülheim an der Ruhr Onstage: sometime after 10pm SAT 02 JUN - KARLSRUHE, DE Autohaus Tschernitz, Durlacher Allee 66, 76131 Karlsruhe Onstage: 11pm MON 04 JUN – BERLIN, DE Bassy Club, Schönhauser Allee 176a, 10119 Berlin Onstage: TBC TUE 05 JUN – FRANKFURT, DE Club Keller, Sachsenhausen, Textorstr. 26, Frankfurt Onstage: TBC FRI 08 JUN – HULL, UK The New Adelphi, 89 De Grey Street, HU5 2RU Onstage: early-ish, we’re supporting
Full details of all shows are on our website And Myspace
If you’ve not seen the Miss Pain live beast for a while, we recommend you do this time. We have new songs you know, and some old favourites.
Oh, and make sure you spread the word so your friends in far off places can come and see Miss Pain too
See you on the road Love the Miss Pain three xxx
Carrion Call ep (Nylon! Friction!) 1. Sell it 2 the Kids 2. Endoscopy Blues (extended) 3. Press-Stud Vendetta 4. Heartbreaker (live) 5. E.B.F.H. (live) 6. In Every Dream Home a Heartache (live)
wow! i had such a fun bank holiday weekend! yeah! it went as follows: friday=blue ice cream (kidz were in awe!!!!)/paddling/drinking wine with my sis 'n' mate in the garden/dancing down the girl-power-sexist-disko....saturday=i went to see BIS!!!! i haven't had that much fun at a gig for years....BIS!!!!YEAH!!!....sunday=sunday lunch/drinking rather nice cidre on the beach with my friends/more ice cream (green and pink)/kareoke (i sang 'pop musik' by m...it was a HIT!... i think ;-)/party time!....monday=6 hour country walk with david (the miss pain sound engineer) around the south downs (devils dyke to ditchling beacon to stanmer park)/wild flowers/frollicking deer/baby rabbits/ginger beer/getting mildly electrocuted by touching an electric fence 'to see if it was on' (well done sarah!!)/it getting dark before we were anywhere near home/cup of earl grey on arrival back in brighton....and that was my super-rock-'n'-roll-nature-walk-bank-holiday-bender.... hope you had a fun time too....love sarah xxx
Hello Pain-fans, we have news and stuff to tell you…
1. --GIG POSTPONED We were booked to play a gig on Easter Sunday (Cavalcade of Pop/Po Na Na). The venue has decided to change its nights around a bit so it's been postponed, and will happen on a later date.
So don’t bother going down there expecting some Miss Pain /resurrection thing going on. Stay at home and stuff yr face with chocolate eggs instead.
2. --MISS PAIN TOUR – NOW BOOKING 27 MAY – 10 JUNE --- UK / NETHERLANDS / BELGIUM / GERMANY Bookings/Queries to >>> nick(at)clubhemisphere.com
We wanna play yr clubs / discos / gigs / dance parties / sweaty basements / etcetera If you can put us on, or if you know someone who maybe could, send us or Nick a message.
3. --WEBSITE UPDATE We have updated our website with a spanking new Audio player and some ultra-RAW live footage too. >>>>>>>>>GO TO: www.noiseaction.misspain.co.uk
4. --L’Amour Electronique – SAT 28 APR + SAT 26 MAY We play Synth Pop, French Pop et Electro Pop Every 4th Sat @ The Penthouse, above The Freebutt 8pm – 1am / Free Entry
Check the Myspace, where we have just added the March playlist with some FREE mp3 links and a bonus YouTube. Aren’t we kind! www.myspace.com/lamourelectronique
5. --REVIEW If you live in Brighton pick up a copy of local zine The Source. They have reviewed our new “single” Endoscopy Blues: “Nick Cave might have the ‘No Pussy Blues’ on the Grinderman album but you know that a metal probe up his insides would soon stop his moaning. What a pain in the arse! Less synthy than you might be expecting, on ‘Endoscopy Blues’ Dom manages to make the whole metaphor work with menace, while Sarah actually makes the process sound sexy. The lo-fi Shangri-Las meets The Cramps at The Rum Runner backing should find plenty of fans now The Gossip are top ten stars”
There’s a nice picture too. But the fact is it ain’t a single, but a promo CD so no-one will be able to buy it just yet. Don’t fret though cos we’ll have a new CD on sale during our tour. Yeah!
6. --PHOTO
There are more new photos like that on our Myspace from Electrocious @ The Pressure Point on 20 MAR 07: www.myspace.com/vivamisspain
7. --ETC thank you for reading.
8. --ETC Happy Easter, Love + Pain Sarah, Verity and Dom xxx
Salut Pain-ettes, A short sharp Miss Pain bulletin coming yr way…
>>>>>>>>>Next week we play LIVE at this: TUE 20 MAR – BRIGHTON Electrocious club nite Scarlet Soho + Miss Pain + Revolution The Pressure Point, Richmond Place doors: 8pm entry: £5/£4 before 9pm/Concs
pssst. There are some cheaper £3 tickets if you’re quick and email Andrew from www.electrocious.com
You should come, we’ll be doing our best just for you.
pssst. We are going on a short tour in May/June in the UK and Europe. We are excited. Keep yr eyes peeled for news on that. And if you want us to play YOUR club/gig/dance party get in touch at bookings@misspain.co.uk
>>>>>>>>>>next week we will also be doing it like French Robots: SATURDAY 24 MARCH L’AMOUR ELECTRONIQUE Miss Pain DJs play Synth Pop, French Pop and Electro Pop The Penthouse, above The Freebutt, Phoenix Place, Brighton 8pm - 1am entry: FREE
Playing stuff like Serge Gainsbourg, John Foxx, Francoise Hardy, Human League, Stereo Total, Jacques Dutronc, Les Georges Leningrad, Soft Cell, The Knife, Jacques Brel, Stereolab, Human League, BBC Radiophonic Workshop… (Dom Pain has been a good Pain and updated the setlists up to January at www.myspace.com/lamourelectronique, so take a look)
There’ll be French films and music videos, all new tricolore décor, cheap drinks, an old Mac Classic computer waiting to hear your deepest desires, and some old bits of French and electronic tat littering the tables. Come early, drink long, stay late…
Hello Pain-fans, We bring you good tidings and news of some imminent Miss Pain live action and L’Amour Electronique which has now moved to the 4th Saturday of the month (ie 24th Feb). First the Live Action…
The animals came in two by two, and here’s what they came to see: some prowling beasties with their claws out, howling at the moon.
SUNDAY 18 FEBRUARY It's Miss Pain’s Menagerie With live music from Miss Pain + Finlay + Mittens The Hope, 11-12 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA Doors: 8pm Entry: £5/£4 mit flyer
Plus, there will be an army of toy animals, creature comforts, and swinging safari music. Do come, it will be fun fun fun FUN-FUR-tastic. And we will cry if you don’t.
MISS PAIN We shouldn’t need an introduction, but for the uninitiated… We’ll be showing off our trademark wall-of-sound garage/electro pop, as well as some tasty new songs about libraries and carousels. The NME says: “Trashier than a night of Lambrini in your perverted uncle’s caravan, and fun if you can stomach it.” And who are we to argue with that? www.misspain.co.uk www.myspace.com/vivamisspain
And now may we introduce FINLAY East London noiseniks influenced by Pavement, Sonic Youth, Quickspace, and Eric’s Trip, Finlay take their love of lo-fi and American alt-rock, then screw them up into a fizzing ball of skewed noise pop. Renowned for their blistering, unpredictable live sets, which see them falling and laughing their way into the hearts of the audience. Finlay are signed to Fortuna POP! records.
"a skelter stitch together of heroic and inspired pop music” (Careless Talk Costs Lives) "The best, most hypnotic, moving, engaging, skewed, lo-fi, glittering, colourful, concise, inventive guitar record of 2006." (Robots and Electronic Brains) www.finlay.org www.myspace.com/finlaytherockband
MITTENS A trio from Boston, USA, Mittens write short, snappy songs with a nod to Nick Lowe, Jonathan Richman, and The Jam. They say their aim is to make melodic music that is both enduring and concise, and a little stupid on the side.
………………………………………………… And now for something completely
We have moved to the 4th Saturday of the month, but we are still at The Penthouse, keeping the fires burning.
SATURDAY 24 FEBRUARY L’AMOUR ELECTRONIQUE Miss Pain DJs play Synth Pop, French Pop and Electro Pop The Penthouse, above The Freebutt, Phoenix Place, Brighton 8pm - 1am entry: FREE
Come and listen to us play records by the likes of Serge Gainsbourg, John Foxx, Francoise Hardy, Human League, Stereo Total, Jacques Dutronc, Les Georges Leningrad, Soft Cell, The Knife, Jacques Brel, Stereolab, Human League, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, with plenty of other electronic delights and Yé-Yé moments along the way.
You are invited to come to our French/Electro Pop disco party this Saturday.
SAT 20 JAN L’Amour Electronique - Synth Pop French Pop Electro Pop DJs: the Miss Pain three, with special guest Jon Slade The Penthouse, above The Freebutt 8pm – 1am FREE ENTRY
If you come, you can expect to hear Serge Gainsbourg, John Foxx, Francoise Hardy, Human League, Stereo Total, Jacques Dutronc, Les Georges Leningrad, Soft Cell, The Knife, Jacques Brel, Stereolab, Human League, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and many more, throwing in a strong measure of Ye-Ye and a sprinkling of electronic delights along the way. With added French, Belgian and Canadian 45s courtesy of Monsieur Slade.
Come early, settle down amongst the striking tricolore decor, drink cheap drinks, watch French films and music videos, take in some French literature, learn about the French Revolution, leave messages on the petit Mac Classic computer, have a dance, stay late.
If you can’t make it this time, then take note: from next month we will be on the 4th Saturday of the month (i.e. 24th February)
For setlists, photos, music and bonus YouTube video delights take a look at our MySpace See you there… Love the Pains xxx
.................................. L'AMOUR ELECTRONIQUE we play Synthesized sounds, French bubblegum pop & Electronic goodness 4TH SATURDAY OF THE MONTH New Venue!
