>>>NEW EP + UK & GERMANY SHOWS

--- Exciting Newsflash from Miss Pain HQ ---

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)

bank holiday fun!!!!

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

>>>Gig (off) + UK/Euro Tour + New Audio/Video

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

>>>Brighton Action Next Week

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

Ubiquitous MySpace links:
www.myspace.com/scarletsohouk
www.myspace.com/vivamisspain (look! New profile pic!)
www.myspace.com/revolutionrevolution

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…

See you next week
Love
The Miss Pain three
xxx

>>>Ménages à trois?

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.

Their second full-length album “Fools on a Holiday” was named among the Top 10 releases of 2006 by the Boston Metro
www.myspace.com/mittens
www.mittensmusic.com

…………………………………………………
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.

More info is on our MySpace

see y'all there
Thank you and bon nuit
xxx

Oh! Oui, Je T'aime...

Attention! tous les garçons et les filles,

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

>>>Agenda for December

Seasons Greetings Pain-sters and Pain-ettes,

The time is almost December and these are the items on our agenda:

1. SAVE THE FREEBUTT (we mean it this time)
2. MISS PAIN LIVE ACTION – SUN 10 DEC
3. SARAH & DOM GO ART-CORE
4. L’AMOUR ELECTRONIQUE – SAT 16 DEC

1. SAVE THE FREEBUTT
The Freebutt is still closed. Essential sound-proofing (£4,000) has not been done, and looks unlikely to happen. The powers-that-be won’t even stump-up £200 to repair a fire-exit, so that the venue can re-open for acoustic gigs. Meanwhile, across town, their swish new venue The H*pe is conveniently plugging the gap.

We’ve heard The Freebutt is on the market for something ridiculous like £40,000, but they won’t sell it to anyone who plans to re-open as a live music venue – Say NO to competition, and a big YES to the Z*l monopoly. So, how long before some unscrupulous property developer knocks it down to build luxury flats? Just what Brighton needs.

If you don’t want to see yet another Brighton venue shut down, it’s time to do your bit. Write to Brighton and Hove City Council by filling out the form here.
Though they may be too busy ploughing money into refurbishing the Mecca Bingo hall for their plush 300-capacity, touring-band friendly, council-funded venue to worry about the local music scene having nowhere to develop. You could ask them to comment on that too!

Above all, go to The Penthouse more often, they’re open every night of the week, and they need your custom to keep the doors open. You could even donate a bit of loose-change towards the fund to fix that fire-exit.


2. SUNDAY10 DECEMBER
Miss Pain presents Stitched-up Tight
Live music from LUXEMBOURG + MISS PAIN
The Hope, Queen’s Road, Brighton
Doors: 8pm – 11pm
Entry: £5/£4 mit flyer

(sorry we had no choice about the venue, we’d originally booked it at The Freebutt, but were forced to re-locate or cancel.)
















This is our first DIY live-art-performance spectacle since March, and we’ll be pulling out all the stops, dressing up the venue with an avalanche of lo-fi décor and visual stimuli. It’s also our last show of the year, so come and celebrate with us, we won’t disappoint. We never disappoint.

LUXEMBOURG perform apocalyptically good pop to a crowd of devotees, for whom everything else is just foreplay. Welcome to your new favourite band - if you relax, it will be painless.
Luxembourg have just released their debut album FRONT (released 23.10.06 on Dogbox Records)
www.myspace.com/luxembourgband

MISS PAIN recently headlined a full-to-bursting Brighton Live show, and have just picked up an NME RADAR feature (they said something about “Lambrini” “perverted uncles” and “caravans”!). They’ll be unleashing their wall of sound garage/electro-pop, pulling shapes, and generally causing a scene for loyal fans, curious first-timers, and the recently converted.
www.myspace.com/vivamisspain



3. SARAH & DOM GO ART-CORE
















HURRAY! YES! WOW!: an exhibition of work by
SARAH PAIN: kittens and death, technology and flowers- the juxtaposition within collage reflects the ridiculousness of modern life.
www.myspace.com/misssarahpain
DOMINIC BRADNUM: neon lights in oil paint: pop art slogans and poignant one-liners.
www.myspace.com/iheartneon
LAURA GUY: photo-gardening for interior spaces.
www.myspace.com/lauraedithguy

@ The Arthouse Gallery (green room), Western Road, Brighton (opp. The ghastly Providence pub)1st Dec - 31st Dec 4pm-late.
OPENING NIGHT: Sat 2nd Dec 8pm-2am. free!!

4. L’AMOUR ELECTRONIQUE – SAT 16 DEC
Miss Pain DJs play Synth Pop, French Pop and Electro Pop
The Penthouse, above The Freebutt, Phoenix Place, Brighton
8pm - 1am
entry: FREE

Don’t forget L’Amour Electronique is now on every month!

















Join us for another glitzy soiree of French pop, synth pop and electro pop. 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 Yé-Yé and a sprinkling of electronic delights along the way. Come early, drink cheap drinks, marvel at our wily DJ skills, 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, KEEP THE PENTHOUSE ALIVE.

For setlists, photos, music and bonus YouTube video delights take a look at our MySpace

Blimey, there’s enough Pain there to keep you going ‘til Christmas.
Wrap up warm
Love the Miss Pain three
xxx

>>> Vive Le Weekend

Salut bread-fans!
In a matter of days the following happening will, er, happen:




SAT 18 NOV
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

Yep, we’ll be helping keep The Penthouse alive with another glitzy soiree of French pop, synth pop and electro pop. 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.

Come early, drink cheap drinks, marvel at our wily DJ skills, 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.

For setlists, photos, music and bonus YouTube video delights take a look at our L'Amour Electronique MySpace.

A Bientot
Mlle Douleur
xxx

>>>LONDON LIVE ACTION THIS WEEK

Hello Pain-fans,
Listen up! We three Pains are excited to be making a rare outing to London village this coming week for a Girl Monster related noise-fest:

SATURDAY 04 NOVEMBER - LONDON
Legal Tender
Miss Pain (Live set and dj set) Onstage 11pm
+ Japanese Intelligence Mind Control + The Mount Cherries
Barden's Boudoir, 38-44 Stoke Newington Rd, N16 7XJ
doors: 8pm - 2am
entry: £6




















HOW TO GET TO BARDEN'S
nearest overground station is Dalston & Kingsland (2 stops from Highbury & Islington Tube)
and here’s a Map 4 U
There’s also choices a-plenty for getting the night bus home, so no excuses Cinderella.

LEGAL TENDER organise post-punk and French pop disko parties in Athens, London and Paris. They are girl playing boyish songs and a boy playing girlie songs. They have very kindly invited Miss Pain to play live and DJ some records at their trés cool nite.


MISS PAIN, that’s us. Here’s what Legal tender very kindly said:
“an amazing "2-girl/1-boy electro-shock pop" group from Brighton. They're into Devo, John Foxx, Joe Meek & Francoise Hardy but their music is dancier and fresher, enveloped in a garage/electropop "wall of sound". They will also show off their DJ-ing skills that dazzle Brighton crowds at their regular event, L'amour electronique.”

And two words from the NME: “Mentally Ill.”

A crazy old lady was drawn in off the street and screamed at someone:
“With music like this, why do they still need to electrocute people?”

JAPANESE INTELLIGENCE MIND CONTROL is also featured on Girl Monster. One girl in shredded tights making dark, eerie, intense electro-acoustic buzz pop.

THE MOUNT CHERRIES two girls and three boys with a battery of toys to make noise with, skipping from folk to disco with their Lala-bella's super dancers on stage. http://www.myspace.com/themountcherries

……………………………………………………….
If you’re a Brighton fan, and can’t make it up to London, fear not, we have just booked a hometown show with the ultra-elegant Luxembourg on SUNDAY 10 DECEMBER, so put it in yr diaries. If you live anywhere else, then we’ll come and play for you in the New Year. Email us if you want to book us for yr parties, gigs and art shows.

We’ve also got our monthly L’AMOUR ELECTRONIQUE nite coming up on
SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER
SATURDAY 16 DECEMBER
@ The Penthouse, above The Freebutt, Brighton
We play Synth Pop, French Pop, and Electro Pop


We have other exciting things a-foot before the year’s out, but you’ll hear about them when we’re good and ready.

Wrap up warm,
love
the Miss Pain three
xxx

NEW GIGS NEW SONGS

Greetings Pain-fans, it’s been a while, and now we have a whole heap of BIG NEWS to report.

AGENDA
1. L’Amour Electronique this Saturday
2. New songs on MySpace
3. Brighton Live gigs
4. New releases on Chicks On Speed’s ‘Girl Monster’ and Fatale’s ‘Do Me More Electro!!!!’ compilations

1) Come join the Miss Pain three at The Guardian’s South-East No.1-Club-of-the-Week(!)
















SATURDAY 16 SEPTEMBER
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

You know the drill: Serge Gainsbourg, John Foxx, Francoise Hardy, Human League, Stereo Total, Jacques Dutronc, Les Georges Leningrad, Soft Cell, etc, with a strong measure of Ye-Ye and a sprinkling of electronic delights along the way.

There’ll be striking tricolore decor, French films and music videos, French literature, a petit Mac Classic computer, late bar, cheap drinks offers, and dancing – if you can find some floor-space!

For setlists, photos, music and bonus YouTube video delights take a look at our MySpace

2) We’ve been busy Pains in the studio: hear the results on MySpace, including a super-powered reworking of ‘Sell it 2 the Kids’, and a monstrous extended-prog-epic version of ‘Endoscopy Blues’

3) In a couple of weeks the whole of Brighton will be going slowly loopy to the sickly squall of tinnitus. Yes, it’s Brighton Live 2006, it’s all free and it’s Miss Pain’s grand return to live action:
















FRIDAY 29 SEPTEMBER
Miss Pain play LIVE!
+ Husbands + Peepholes
The Prince Albert, Trafalgar St, Brighton
Doors: 8pm – 11pm
Entry: FREE

Seeing as we’ve been depriving you poor Pain-fans for a few months, we have a whole box of tricks and surprises up our sleeves for this. We can’t tell you more, so you’ll have to come and see for yourselves.

Please also make an effort to come and see our pick of Brighton’s waifs and strays the following night: (NB Miss Pain will NOT be playing live at this, but will be DJ-ing, equipment permitting)
SATURDAY 30 SEPTEMBER
The Utopians + The Fuck You Planet Earth + Dirty Cakes
The Garden, Kensington Gardens, Brighton
Doors: 6pm (early gig)
Entry: FREE

4) We Pains are very excited to be featured on 2 HOT new compilations:












Chicks On Speed’s ‘Girl Monster’ is a 3 CD/61 song femme evaluation of music from punk to the now, covering The Slits, Le Tigre, Bjork, Delta 5, Robots in Disguise, Erase Errata, Cobra Killer, and more more more. Includes Miss Pain’s ‘Sell it 2 the Kids (megaphone version)’.
Should be available in all good record shops on the street and on the web.
















‘Do Me More Electro!!!!’ was compiled by Parisian electro-sluts Fatale. Miss Pain’s ‘Tapped Yr Phone’ shares laser space with Gravy Train, Motormark, Shrag, Revl9n, Crack W.A.R. and a load more electro-dancefloor hits.
Go to www.fatalerocks.com to order your copy.

Any other business?
No.

Pat yourself on the back for reading this far.
Keep it pain-ful
Love
The Miss Pain three
xxx

What we did last week...

Dear Pain-fans,
On bank-holiday Monday we three Pains took a little trip to the seaside (it was a different seaside called Littlehampton)...

First we went to "Fun Land", where Leonardo Da Vinci drew this picture of us.














We tried to point out to him that Sarah doesn't actually have a beard of iron-filings, but he took our £3 and scarpered. Now where's the fun in that?

Next we went on the "amazing boat-train". Which wasn't very amazing but the 'locomotive' was shaped a bit like a boat. Here we are being amazed (note: Dom's incognito look)














We got off the train at an "adventure golf course", and we were ready for some adventure, so...






































Sarah adopts her professional golfer stance.

Adventure Golf scoreboard
1. Dom Pain (possibly due to some lax score-keeping on his part)
2. Sarah Pain (lead the field until a disastrous round on the Volcano hole)
3. Verity Pain (a slow start, but made up soem ground on the last few holes)

On returning to Dom and Verity's 'hood, they were shocked to discover the secret was out:















On Wednesday, we returned to The Red Room to mix three new recordings, which will be on MySpace very soon.

Dom returns from another vocal-take with his drink of choice - hot honey and lemon with a shot of brandy.














Meanwhile Verity and Sarah busy themselves with work of greater importance...














Later that week, Sarah shamelessly dropped 'Endoscopy Blues' whilst DJ'ing at an indie club. And the kids? They shook their skinny little asses.

Stay tuned for more Pain-ful shenanigans, and keep an eye on MiceBase for those new recordings.

This is Mister Pain signing out.
x

>>>FRENCH DISKO, BRIGHTON,THIS SATURDAY

Salut Pain-fans,

We just spent the day in the studio, making unearthly noises and strange vocal sounds. Everyday is a fun day with Miss Pain... But now we are suffering from cabin fever, so please come and help us socially re-adjust this Saturday at:

SATURDAY 19 AUGUST
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

Join the Miss Pain three for a glitzy soiree of French pop, synth pop and electro pop. Verity, Sarah and Dom will be mixing up a heady cocktail of Serge Gainsbourg, John Foxx, Francoise Hardy, Human League, Stereo Total, Jacques Dutronc, Les Georges Leningrad, Soft Cell, and many more, throwing in a strong measure of Ye-Ye and a sprinkling of electronic delights along the way.

Guests can settle down amongst the striking tricolore decor, lounge in the battered sofas, watch French films and rare footage of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot, take in some French literature, and even leave messages on the petit Mac Classic computer. All this and a late bar with cheap drinks offers.

For setlists, photos, music and bonus YouTube video delights take a look at our MySpace:
http://ww.lamourelectronique.misspain.co.uk

A Bientot
Miss Pain
xxx

Three Go Camping In Sussex

The mighty Miss Pain 3 went camping this weekend...Imagine if you can the sight of Verity, Dominic and I cycling along in our best summer outfits...tents strapped to our bikes, smiles on our faces (sometimes). We then watched shooting stars in the sky and didnt really sleep a wink, as it was rather uncomfortable, and Verity and I kept rolling onto Dom because we camped on a slope...But even though we are a little sleepy now, we still agree that WE LOVE NATURE! HURRAY!

love Sarah xx

>>>Save the Freebutt / French Disko 15.07.06 / Vote Pain again

Salutations Pain-fans,

The word on the street is that The Freebutt has been closed due to noise complaints from local residents. This is bad bad news for live music in Brighton, especially as people are being rather cagey about when it will re-open.

Do your bit:

• Write to the Council and tell them they should be investing in grass-roots culture, not trying to stop it (quote them: “Brighton & Hove is a vibrant, multicultural city which offers a wide range of leisure pursuits for everyone to enjoy.”),
  Fill out a Council complaints form
  
• Tell the good people at The Freebutt you miss the gigs and that they should fix it up pronto.

But let’s not let them piss on our parade, keep coming to The Penthouse, and help keep the place ticking over. Here’s a good reason:

L’Amour Electronique has gone MONTHLY.

SAT 15 JULY
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

Yes we’ll now be drunk on cheap beer on the 3rd Saturday of every month, and you can follow our example...

Join the Miss Pain three for a glitzy soiree of French pop, synth pop and electro pop. Verity, Sarah and Dom will be mixing up a heady cocktail of Serge Gainsbourg, John Foxx, Francoise Hardy, Human League, Stereo Total, Jacques Dutronc, Les Georges Leningrad, Soft Cell, and many more, throwing in a strong measure of Ye-Ye and a sprinkling of electronic delights along the way.

Guests can settle down amongst the striking tricolore decor, lounge in the battered sofas, watch French films and rare footage of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot, take in some French literature, and even leave messages on the petit Mac Classic computer. All this and a late bar with cheap drinks offers.

For setlists, photos, music and bonus YouTube video delights take a look at our MiceBase
latest videos:
Serge Gainsbourg et Charlotte Gainsbourg - Lemon Incest
Peter Shelley - Homosapien


Finally, Channel 4 SlashMusic seems to have gone a bit wrong, and all our votes have disappeared. So if you voted for us, can you do so again, please?

You can still vote on NME New Music too.
Thanks everyone for taking the time to do this.

Check this Blog for gossip over the summer

love
the Miss Pain three
xxx

ps future date for yr diary:
SAT 29 JUL - Kill Yr Boyfriend @ The Penthouse, where Miss Pain (singular) offers psychological advice, electro-pop therapy, girl band self help, art-house analysis and post-punk treatment. With personality questionnaires. 8pm-1am, free entry

A Postcard from Leningrad

The mighty Les Georges Leningrad almost disappointed us and a horde of Brighton-types last Saturday. But they turned up in the nick of time, and blew a hole in our heads with their awesome no-wave-disco-screams-and-perversions. Merci Poney, Mingo et Bobo.

Afterwards they had nowhere to stay, so Sarah offered them her floor, and we took them under Miss Pain's wing. And what did we do with them? Took them to a kebab shop, fed them cheap cider, talked French Pop and stage decor, and taught them puerile swears like 'Wanker'. Aren't we good little Pains?
















Catch them if you can in Europe:

2006-07-12 - London, UK @ Barden’s Boudoir (Delete Yourself Club), Les Georges Leningrad w/ Dandi Wind + Crystal Castles
2006-07-14 - Montmartin sur mer, Fr @ Fest. Chauffer dans la noirceur, Les Georges Leningrad w/ Final Fantasy, Panico
2006-07-15 - Dour, BE @ Festival de Dour, Les Georges Leningrad w/ Primal Scream + The Gossip + Katerine ...

>>>French Disko + Vote for Miss Pain

Salut Pain-sters & Pain-ettes,
We bring you news of our petit French Disko soiree this Friday.

But first a chance for you to vote for your fave girl/boy electro-shock pop-ists (that’s Miss Pain, by the way!) on t’internet:

We have a page on NME’s New Music site. Just log-in or register as a member, and then you can listen to Heartbreaker and Caught My Eye, leave a comment, and come out as a Miss Pain fan.

And on Channel 4’s SlashMusic site you can also listen to Heartbreaker and watch the live video for E.B.F.H. (Electric Blue Fire Hazard), AND you can post a review and rate us out of five.

We look forward to a deluge of (kind) feedback. And we thank you in advance.


And now a reminder for this week:












FRI 30 JUN - BRIGHTON
L'Amour Electronique
Miss Pain DJ's play Synth Pop, French Pop, Electro Pop
The Penthouse, upstairs at The Freebutt
doors: 8pm - 1am
entry: FREE

(nb. there are some flyers and posters out there that say it’s on Saturday. This was a small f* up on our part. The proper date is FRIDAY 30th JUNE.)

The Miss Pain three host an evening of synth pop, French pop and electro pop for all you robots, bar-flies, and Francophiles. Mixing up a cocktail of music from Serge Gainsbourg to Soft Cell, France Gall to Fat Truckers, Jacques Dutronc to John Foxx, Francoise Hardy to The Human League, via Stereo Total, Ladytron, Brigitte Bardot, Cobra Killer, Ye-Ye, The Electronic Bible, Nouveau Rock’n’Roll Francais, Pop a Paris, etcaetera.

Plus! The usual excess of decorations and embellishments to come crashing down around you, with special guest confidante The Mac Classic, and the ever-glamorous Mlle Sell providing translation services and secretarial support.

We have some new video and audio on our myspace, as well as photos and set-lists from last time, www.myspace.com/lamourelectronique.

And finally, from July L’Amour Electronique goes monthly on the 3rd Saturday of the month. Yay!

A Bientot!
Miss Pain
xxx

>>>See Miss Pain for the last time...

...this summer.

Yep, it's our final, end of summer blow-out, and we want YOU to be there. You know it just won't be the same without YOU. Yes, I'm talking to YOU. Listen up.

Miss Pain will be shaking the foundations of The Freebutt this Saturday, with an all-out assault of synthetic pop, visual noise, uncompromising elegance, glamour and artifice.

The situation is this:

SAT 17 JUN
Luxembourg + Miss Pain + Mashkova
The Freebutt, Phoenix Place
doors: 8pm
entry: £5/£4 concs

Not cheap enough for you? Bring this flyer for £1 off entry.


















Are we not kind?

Here’s what to expect:
8.25pm Mashkova
who like pie charts and make sub-pop electronica.
9.10pm Miss Pain
who will cause a scene and preen and scream, and plan to go out in a hail of analogue sparks.
10.00pm Luxembourg
well-dressed young men who play apocalyptically good pop a la Roxy, Bowie, Pulp, Smiths, Suede.

So there you have it. Your very last chance to catch a dose of the Pain to see you through the sticky summer months. We will return, with new songs, new clothes, big ideas, and fresh, new blood coursing through our veins.

Thanks to everyone who shunned the sunshine to witness some Miss Pain live action in London last weekend. And extra-special thanks to Shrag for summer holiday tour-bus fun.

Love + Pain
the M.P.3
xxx

>>>LONDON + BRIGHTON last shows until October

Look Out!
Miss Pain play their final shows of the summer. So make sure you catch a good dose of the Pain to keep you going through the hot sticky nights…

First, the Pains make 2 hit’n’run assaults on London this weekend, aided by their comrades-in-arms Shrag. And, if they make it back, they will entertain the troops in Brighton the following Saturday.







SAT 10 JUN - LONDON
Rough Trade presents RoTa
Miss Pain + Connan & the Mockingbirds + Shrag
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate
Nearest Tube: Notting Hill Gate
doors: 4pm - 8pm
entry: FREE

Apparently there’s some football match happening, and the Notting Hill Arts Club will be opening especially early for people to watch it. First band on at 5pm.

If you've not been before, the Arts Club has a pleasant Eastern Bloc youth club feel, but with beer and pear cider, as well as vodka. What better way to spend a Saturday afternoon/evening? And the whole thing will be over in time to go out for Saturday nite proper.

SUN 11 JUN - LONDON
Club Hemisphere Barbecue All-dayer
Punish The Atom + Ill Ease + Miss Pain
+ Zoppo + Shrag + Econoline + Chow Chow
Plus! DJs Left Brain vs Right Brain, The Undertaker and Silver Rocket
Plus! Food
The Windmill, 22 Blenheim Gardens, Brixton
Nearest Tube: Brixton
doors: 4pm - 12am
entry: £5

Blimey that’s a lot fun for five pounds. Get your advance tickets from wegottix

And if you fancy a weekend beside the seaside:
SAT 17 JUN - BRIGHTON
Luxembourg + Miss Pain + Mashkova
The Freebutt, Phoenix Place
doors: 8pm
entry: £5

For those who like Pulp and Roxy Music, Luxembourg are launching their debut album.
Miss Pain will make some noise and pull some shapes like it’s their last gig of the summer. Which it is.
Able support from Mashkova.

Thanks, if you’re still reading this. Now go outside and enjoy the English summer.

And now, we bid you adieu.
love
Miss Pain
xxx

>>> PAIN + BRITCH = MELODRAMA. Brighton, this Friday

!Newsflash! !Lightning strikes! !Thunder claps! !Theremin wails eerily across the ether!

Yep, them Pains have been coaxed out of hiding for this End-of-Brighton-Festival-Spectacular

FRIDAY 26 MAY
Miss Pain + Dear Britch + The Don Bradmans + Rupert Noble video screenings
Hanbury Ballroom, St Georges Rd, Kemptown
Doors: 9.30pm - late
Entry: £5/£4 concessions













Self-styled “1st lady of the ghetto” Dear Britch hosts an evening of Britch-i-ness and faded glamour (like you used to get down the end of the pier). Dear Britch will hold court and perform throughout the evening. Dear Britch must be seen. Dear Britch must be obeyed. For Dear Britch, life is art. Dear Britch may well be the Quentin Crisp / Marjorie Proops of the electro world.

Miss Pain will be headlining this seedy cabaret in their usual inimitable way. They promise cheap thrills and spills, screaming, preening, posing and falling, plus a brand new song about microscopic cameras.
Miss Pain will be onstage at about 11.30pm

The Don Bradmans will also play. (For those of you who know Dom Pain’s civilian name, this may be confusing.) The Don Bradmans regard themselves as “the undisputed champions of chap rock”. There are many of them, and they all go by the name Don Bradman, whilst sporting head-to-toe tweed and well groomed facial whiskers.

Moving pictures will be provided by Mister Rupert Noble, who has been responsible for creating striking pop videos for the likes of The Long Blondes, This Et Al, The Dirty Three. Rupert also made Miss Pain’s dashing ‘Caught My Eye’ video, which will be screened during the evening.

Be there, or be in our bad-books.
love
Miss Pain xxx
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L'Amour Electronique

hello Bread-fans,

We just wanted to alert you to the très belle new Tricolore-look L’Amour Electronique MySpace page:

www.myspace.com/lamourelectronique

Verity and Dom have been busy finding treats for you, and managed to dig up some delightful video clips (by the power of YouTube).

Currently on site we have:
France Gall et Serge Gainsbourg - Dents de Lait, Dents de Loup
Datarock - Computer Camp Love
Jacques Dutronc - Les Cactus
The Human League - Being Boiled (Live on Granada TV, 1978)

Plus! There’s photos and a full set-list from the recent L’Amour Electronique nite, and your visit will also be soundtracked by Jacques Dutronc’s ‘Le Responsable’, which is a French garage belter of a song!

We will aim to try and up-date our audio and video every couple of weeks, so make sure you check back regularly to see if we’ve unearthed any more lost gems.

Come and say Salut!, and be our friends.
A bientôt
Mlle Douleur